(1838 quotes found)
“And where two waging fires meet togetherThey do consume the thing that feeds their fury.Though little fire grows great with little wind,Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.”
William Shakespeare
“Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“And many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.”
“The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale”
Thomas Paine
“She was a vixen when she went to school:And though she be but little, she is fierce.”
“The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.”
Charles Baudelaire
“The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.”
William Blackstone
“There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them”
Christina of Sweden
“For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak - With most miraculous organ”
“Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails”
Clarence Darrow