Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Blake

Heaven is in a grain of sand.

Wernher von Braun

In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla of less than three ships. . . . So it is with interplanetary exploration: it must be done on the grand scale.

Samuel Butler

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.

W. H. Auden

The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

William Congreve

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

William Cowper

But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.

William Cowper

But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

Wayne Dyer

Earth is heaven. Or hell. Your choice.

William Gurnall

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

William Ralph Inge

Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.

William Booth

There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell.

William Booth

I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

William Butler Yeats

Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

Wilkie Collins

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

Walter Scott

Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.

Walter Scott

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

Walter Scott

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

Walter Scott

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

Winston Churchill

The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.

William Samuel Johnson

Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.

William Law

The will is that which has all power; it makes heaven and it makes hell: for there is no hell but where the will of the creature is turned from God, nor any heaven but where the will of the creature worketh with God.

Woody Guthrie

I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to heaven You find no policeman there

William Wordsworth

Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.

William Wordsworth

Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."

William Wordsworth

To be young was very heaven!

William Wordsworth

A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!

William Faulkner

True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.

Saint Augustine

Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

Saint Augustine

And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?

Zhuangzi

Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.

William Hazlitt

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

Walter Pater

Has nature connected itself together by no bond, allowed itself to be thus crippled, and split into the divine and human elements? Well! there are certain divine powers of a middle nature, through whom our aspirations are conveyed to the gods, and theirs to us. A celestial ladder, a ladder from heaven to earth.