22 Quotations with Shaft.
- 1. Shaftesbury: It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is ...
- 4. Aesop: The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We ...
- 5. Sir Walter Scott: O! many a shaft, at random sent,
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- 6. Bertrand Russell: I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather t ...
- 7. Anthony A. Cooper-Lord Shaftesbury: When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so
- 8. Scottish Clock Motto: Hours are Time's shafts, and one comes winged with death.
- 9. Thomas McGuane: America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can b ...
- 10. Thomas J. Cottle: For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondro ...
- 11. Samuel Johnson: He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
- 12. Joseph Conrad: I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamen ...
- 13. Lord Shaftesbury: It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and ...
- 14. Herman Melville: Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter. To ...
- 15. Oliver Goldsmith: She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice ...
- 16. Oliver Goldsmith: The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can t ...
- 17. Lord Shaftesbury: The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty ...
- 18. Lord Shaftesbury: The one and only formative power given to man is thought. By his thinking he not ...
- 19. James Fenton: The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You comp ...
- 20. Lord Shaftesbury: True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bu ...
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