Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Cat Deeley

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

Desiderius Erasmus

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Aristotle

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

Ben Jonson

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

Benjamin Disraeli

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

ODORS ARE ALWAYS OF QUESTIONABLE PARENTAGE AND NEVER OF NOBLE BIRTH.

Queen Elizabeth II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

If they had a profession at all, it had to be a noble cause. Now, it is about glamour, money, and fame.

Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Bill Vaughan

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

Petrarch

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

Alexander Pope

While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

A. P. Herbert

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

Daniel Burnham

A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.

Daniel Burnham

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Albert Camus

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

Clayton Christensen

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well,

Dalton Trumbo

What's so noble about being dead?

Alice Cary

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

H. G. Wells

Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept.

Carlo Goldoni

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]

Leonardo da Vinci

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

Paul Gauguin

There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.

Publilius Syrus

A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

George Herbert

Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.

George Herbert

Noble houskeepers neede no dores.