(474 quotes found)
“You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need”
The Rolling Stones
“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
William Shakespeare
“Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live”
Elizabeth Akers Allen
“The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.”
Eric Hoffer
“Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.”
Britney Spears
“Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“A rolling stone can gather no moss.”
Publilius Syrus
“GORGON, n.The Gorgon was a maiden bold Who turned to stone the Greeks of old That looked upon her awful brow. We dig them out of ruins now, And swear that workmanship so bad Proves all the ancient sculptors mad.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Under every stone lurks a politician.”
Aristophanes
“Red lips are not so red/ As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
Wilfred Owen
