Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.

Francis Thompson

Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird.

Francis Schaeffer

The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.

Francis Quarles

Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.

Francis Quarles

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

Francis Quarles

A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.

Ian Mcewan

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

Hugh Hefner

I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.

Hugh Jackman

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

Horace

Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.

Horace Mann

So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Horace Mann

The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.

Horace Mann

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

Horace Mann

Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann

There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.

Horace Mann

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.

Horace Mann

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

Homer

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

Homer

I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.

Homer

Have patience, heart.

Homer

The hearts of great men can be changed.

Homer

The hearts of the great can be changed.

If I thought that a smile of mine, might linger the whole day through and lighten some heart with a heavier part, I'd not withhold it -- Would you?

Hilary Swank

If I can just keep searching for things that move my heart and soul as much as this story, you can't go wrong,

If home is where the heart is, then Belize is my home.

I don't think that would be all that appropriate. But, my heart will be there with them.

I feel as if my heart and mind stopped on Jan. 30 in room 1917 of Memorial Hospital.

I don't want to make it sound apocalyptic, but I think it in some ways is a question of the heart and soul of the university.

William Congreve

I could find it in my heart to marry thee, purely to be rid of thee.

Erica Jong

The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before.

Erica Jong

There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell me how to become a poet. Tell me what to do." . . . What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you're a poet. But there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn't any formula for it.

Erica Jong

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.