(179 quotes found)
“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.”
William Shakespeare
“Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
Dalai Lama
“And many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.”
“Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes”
Carly Fiorina
“He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?”
Stephen King
“Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!”
Marquis De Sade
“The rainy Pleiads wester, / Orion plunges prone, / The stroke of midnight ceases, / And I lie down alone.”
A. E. Housman
“Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.”
Charlotte Bronte
“There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.”
Coleman Young
