32 Quotations with Verses.
- 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to ...
- 2. Voltaire: Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses thems ...
- 7. Charles Darwin: We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes ...
- 8. Douglas Adams: My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficienc ...
- 9. Philip Dormer Stanhope: Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses w ...
- 10. Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire: God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by ...
- 11. Joseph Brodsky: If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the m ...
- 12. Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort: Most people who put together verses or quotes are like people who eat cherries a ...
- 13. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Our actions are like the rhymed ends of blank verses, where each one can be put ...
- 14. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
- 15. Marilyn Ferguson: The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention ...
- 16. William Hazlitt: The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignit ...
- 17. Elwyn Brooks White: The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (I ...
- 18. Horace: The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
- 19. Horace: The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by rev ...
- 20. William S. Burroughs: This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other ...
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