Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Middleton

A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.

Thomas Middleton

Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

Geoffrey Chaucer

He was as fresh as is the month of May.

Leigh Hunt

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Elizabeth Jennings

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

Ernest Dowson

And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.

Thomas Gray

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

Alice Meynell

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Anne Wilson Schaef

It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.

Charles Spurgeon

He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.

Martin Luther

We are at fault for not slaying them (the Jews)

Edgar Cayce

Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.

Edgar Cayce

Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.

Edmund Waller

Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

Charles Dudley Warner

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

Charles Marion Russell

Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.

Bernard Levin

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

Juan Lopez

We're just waiting for nighttime. It's the terrorists' fault that they are doing this, but now they are taking it out on everyone.

Charles Baudelaire

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

Kimberly Kim

We had nothing to hide so we wanted to co-operate. We thought it was the right thing to do.

Dottie Kastigar

Lots of barns out here to hide in. And these are people who don't necessarily want to be found. They still have a lot of pride.

Thomas Kinkade

She was my high school sweetheart. I hide an 'N' in every painting.

Deborah Moggach

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

Tom Petty

When you shoot well, you can hide a lot of deficiencies. I like the (3-pointer) as well as anyone, but we wanted to be a little more patient on offense in the second half.

Colin Angle

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.

Rig Veda

One should never lie to hide one's mistake.

Amy Bloom

I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it?

Charles Spurgeon

You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.

David Brainerd

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.

Charles Spurgeon

When all else is changing within and around, in God and His mercy no change can be found.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Why am I so often at the mercy of those who don't deserve to control my life?

Adrian Rogers

There can be no mercy without truth.

Catherine McAuley

The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.

Conrad Black

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

Duane Chapman

Where mercy is shown, mercy is given.

Carlos Slim

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

George W. Bush

Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Akiva ben Joseph

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

Rafael Benitez

When the others see how much he runs they will know they have competition.

Phaedrus

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Owen Arthur

But for others like me, today is a day to be proud of those we love.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.

Charles Caleb Colton

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Charles Dickens

Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!

Charles Stanley

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

Charles Stanley

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

Charles Spurgeon

I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing - but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people. - mourning much that anything of his own should come between - but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.

Charles Spurgeon

Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel of teaching.... Sound teaching is the best protection for the heresies which ravage right and left among us.

Charles Spurgeon

If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.

Alan Watts

Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?