Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Chris Campbell

I can stand here right now and pick out 10 kids who have congenital heart defects, but if you didn't know, nobody would.

David White

Collectively, it's 4,000 people with their heart in the right place.

Huston Smith

Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature - one whose morphe (form) is theos - God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them.

Hunter S. Thompson

There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen — despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths...

Hunter S. Thompson

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

Hunter S. Thompson

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

Hunter S. Thompson

Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!

Hunter S. Thompson

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.