(1218 quotes found)
“Of a rascal and a serpent, the serpent is the better of the two, for he strikes only at the time he is destined to kill, while the former at every step.”
Chanakya
“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.”
Carl Schurz
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
William Butler Yeats
“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”
Mark Twain
“There are two births: the one when lightFirst strikes the new awakened sense;The other when two souls unite,And we must count our life from thence,When you loved me and I loved you,Then both of us were born anew.”
William Cartwright
“It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.”
Vincent van Gogh
“The mason who strikes often is better than the one who strikes too hard”
Irish Sayings
“Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.”
Jack Handy
“He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument”
Chinese Proverbs