Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

Virgil

Fear reveals baseborn souls!

Voltaire

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

Voltaire

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

Voltaire

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

Voltaire

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.

Voltaire

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

William Ralph Inge

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

William Booth

I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.

William Booth

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

William Booth

Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.

William C. Bryant

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!

William C. Bryant

Features, the great soul's apparent seat.

William Butler Yeats

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

William Butler Yeats

If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?

Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is not for timid souls.

Walter Savage Landor

There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

Walter Scott

On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.

William Kidd

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.

Winston Churchill

The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.

William S. Burroughs

I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer.

William Maxwell

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

William Law

The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.

William Jennings Bryan

Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.

Vinoba Bhave

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

Virchand Gandhi

Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.

Saint Augustine

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

Saint Augustine

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

Wilson Pickett

Soul ain't nothing but a feeling.

Wim Wenders

Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.

William Warburton

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.