Stephen Spender Famous Quotes
"I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center."
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
Stephen Spender Quotations
The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.
David Searles
"Fr., I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday."
King Henry IV of France
"Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind."
Samuel Johnson
"The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread."
Portuguese Proverb
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails
Will Rogers
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
Aeschylus
"Do today, what you usually can't do and save the frequent and usual things for tomorrow."
Cristina Rose Schumacher
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Dan Rather
"Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ectasy."
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde
What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god
William Shakespeare