Quotations Page 'F'

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

- Gray -

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Let us crown ourselves with rosebunds before they be withered.

- Wisdom of Soloman -

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But I will woo the dainty rose, the queen of every one.

- Hood, Flower -

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The fly sat upon the axle-tee to the chariot wheel, said, "What a dust do I raise !".

- Francis Bacon, Essays -

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The wanton body that kills a fly, Shall feel the spider's enmity.

- Blake -

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There is a foolish corner even in the brain of a sage.

- Aristotle -

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He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.

- Rochefoucauld -

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None but a fool is always right.

- J.C.Hare, Guesses of Truth -

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My flower, seek not thy paradise in a fool's bottonhole.

- Tagore, Fireflies -

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Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.

- Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes -

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What fools these mortals be!

- Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream -

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Into a Limbo large and broad, since call'd.The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown.

- Milton, Paradise Lost -

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Her feet beneath petticoat.Like little mice, stole in and out,As if they feared the light.

- Suckling, Ballad Upon a Wedding -

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Everyday preserves in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it is compelled by the change that state by impressed forces.

- Issac Newton, Principia -

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What is readily yielded to courtesy is never yielded to forces.

- Mahatma Gandhi -

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Force is rugged way of making love.

- S.Butler, Cat and Pus -

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Knowing how Nature threatens ere she springs.

- R.Buchanam, Meg Blane -

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O that man might know.The end of this day's business are it come!

- Shakespeare, Troilus -

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In life, as in chess forethought wins.

- Buxton -

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