Page 5: Quotations Page With 'D'
Saturday, 21 December 2024
And all my fotunes at thy foot I'll lay,And follow thee, my lord throughout the world.
- Shakespeare, Romeo and juliet -
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All is holy where devotion kneels.
- O.W.Holmes -
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Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.
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- Longfellow -
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The best throw with the dice is to throw them away.
- Proverb -
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One meal a day is enough for a lion, if not to be for a man.
- C.Fordyce -
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...... the ultimate failures of dictatorship cost humanity far more than any temporary failures of democracy.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt.Address, 1937 -
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
- Geothe -
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We are often duped by difficulties as by confidence.
- Chesterfield -
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Even with the best desert goes diffidence.
- Browning -
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
- George Santayana, Introduction to Spinoza -
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
- Broker T.Washington, Up From Slavery -
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way.
- Issac Goldberg -
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Diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birth day but forgets her age.
- Amon -
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Dirt is not dirt, but only something in the wrong place.
- Lord Palmerston -
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Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
- Sir Boyle Boche -
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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappointment myself.
- Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer -
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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
- L.E.London -
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Night was our friend; leader was despair.
- Vergil, Aeneid -
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