VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

The Ass Carrying the Image AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous wooden Image, to be placed in one of its Temples. As he passed along, the crowd made lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass, thinking that they bowed their heads in token of respect for himself, bristled up with pride, gave himself airs, and refused to move another step. The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his shoulders and said, O you perverse dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to an Ass. They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.

Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

While it is right to stress the dangers of the permissive society, the argument from danger is not in itself a good argument, because it seems to imply that, if the danger could be removed, if there was no risk of a child and no peril of infection, then the objection would be removed, too. It tends to imply that the objection is to the attendant dangers and not to the thing itself. But if sexual intercourse before and outside marriage is against the teaching of Jesus, then the thing is not only dangerous, it is wrong in itself.

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.

Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. -Mary Frances Berry.

While men talk of killing time, slowly time kills men.

May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.