Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Cobbett

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent so much as the smallness of his wants

Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Joe Paterno

I thought we showed some greatness last night.

Blaise Pascal

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

Blaise Pascal

It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.

Blaise Pascal

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Blaise Pascal

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

Blaise Pascal

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

Blaise Pascal

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He was abominable...and the most alluring, tortured soul I'd ever met.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have.

Barry Lopez

The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

B. R. Ambedkar

Neither god nor soul can save society.

Bijou Phillips

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

Bhagat Singh

The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march

C. S. Lewis

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

Aristotle

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

William Shakespeare

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

Jean Genet

...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

Evelyn Waugh

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

Joseph Joubert

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

Oscar Wilde

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Frank Lloyd Wright

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented