Jun 14, 2010
Quotes by Henry Clay Work
"Father, dear father, come home with me now, The clock in the steeple strikes one".
Quotes by Virginia Woolf
"Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England".
Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
"The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason".
Quotes by Sir Pelham Greville Wodehouse
"It is no use telling me ... Read More
Apr 24, 2010
Quotes by Thomas Russell Ybarra
"A Christian is a man who feels, Repentance on a Sunday, For what he did on Saturday, And going to do on Monday".
Quotes by William Butler Yeats
"And god stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight; And love is less kind than the grey twilight, And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn".
Quotes by Edward Young
"A God all mercy, is a God unjust".
Quotes by William Wordsworth
"Plain living and high ... Read More
Mar 12, 2010
Quotes by Virginia Woolf
"Let a man get up and say, "Behold, this is the truth," and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say".
Quotes by Ludwig Joseph Johann Wittgenstein
"When one is frightened of the truth... then it is never the whole truth that one has an inking of".
Quotes by Tennessee Williams
"I am the opposite of the stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. ... Read More
Mar 7, 2010
Quotes by William Butler Yeats
"Come swish around, my pretty punk, And keep me dancing still, That I may stay a sober man, Although I drink my fill".
Quotes by William Wordsworth
"And homeless near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. Drink, pretty creature, drink".
Quotes by Virginia Woolf
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well".
Quotes by William Carlos Williams
"I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast".
Quotes by Izaak ... Read More
Jan 28, 2010
Quotes by Edward Young
"Friendship's the wine of life".
Quotes by William Wycherley
"Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion".
Quotes by Virginia Woolf
"I have lost friends, some by death...others through sheer inability to cross the street".
Quotes by Oscar Wilde
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their characters, and my enemies for their brains".
Quotes by Cornelius Whur
"Will not a beauteous landscape bright - Or music's soothing sound, Console the heart - afford delight, And throw sweet ... Read More
Dec 31, 2009
Quotes by Sir Thomas Wyatt
"Fortune's friend is mishap's woe".
Quotes by Virginia Woolf
"One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph".
Quotes by Simone Well
"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else".
Quotes by John Webster
"Fortune's a right whore: If she ... Read More