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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.


Heywood Broun

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CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bone of great men.
GILES FIRMIN Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
JOHN CHRYSOSTOM I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs
STEPHEN KING Hell is paved with good samaritans.
ROBERT HERRICK Hell is paved with good intentions.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Hell is paved with good intentions.
JOHN RAY Hell is paved with good Samaritans.
WILLIAM M. HOLDEN Hell is paved with infants' skulls.
RICHARD BAXTER Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Hell is paved with good intentions.
LORD EDWARD COKE Hell is paved with good intentions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hell is paved with priests' skulls
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM Hell is paved with good intentions
JOHN RAY The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
STEPHEN KING The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
GEORGE ALLEN, SR. The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
GEORGE ALLEN There are people who do what they believe is right, but as they say, 'The road to hell is paved ...
AJA NAOMI KING The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
PHILIP ROTH Hell is paved with good intentions, not bad ones
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Could the pyramids have actually been cast instead of built by teams of men maneuvering hewn blocks?
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities.
PORTUGUESE PROVERB It is melancholy to reflect that Mankind has suffered more from ill-judged philanthropy than from ca...
GILES ST. AUBYN It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have the...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Sure, there's a lot of interest. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
GREG RIGAMER Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them
ALDOUS HUXLEY The road to hell may be paved with good intentions but the path to misery is cobbled with trying to ...
LATOYA HANKINS My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.
NICHOLAS SPARKS I have talked with representatives from the two other parties who said they had no problem with the ...
ABHISIT VEJJAJIVA Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks,...
ARNE JACOBSEN only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox. ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS And when she ceased, we sighing saw / The floor lay paved with broken hearts.
RICHARD LOVELACE Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those...
ANNA GODBERSEN The behavior I'm seeing is typical of Mussolini. The chancellor means well, but the road to hell is ...
HOWARD ROSENBERG I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo...
STEPHEN SPENDER I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
MARY SCHMICH O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight Do w...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Hell is other people.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One good turn deserves another. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD Eyes are given only to those who can not see with their hearts.
TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM Out of the frying pan into the fire. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, "Behold! the barren b...
ALEXANDER SMITH One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outs...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Grandeur and sublimity, not softness, are the features of Estes Park. The glades which begin so soft...
ISABELLA BIRD The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life
BILLY GRAHAM "Those who judge you, can do so because they are perfectly flawless themselves", said no person ever...
KATHERINE DIVOLIS "The road to freedom is paved with grave markers of brave men and women, who gave their lives for th...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN I've got just as much luck with locks as I do hearts. In other words, no luck at all.
S.D. LAWENDOWSKI Life is perpetuated by not eating meat.The clenched jaws of hell hold those who do.
THE TIRUKURAL The faithfulness of the Lord is so great that no mind can comprehend it, no hand can fold it, no mou...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved wit...
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds ...
EVERETT DIRKSEN All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinem...
BILLIE HOLIDAY That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in...
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG Mockery is the weapon of those who have no other.
HUBERT PIERLOT The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved wit...
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY More things belong to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywo...
JOHN HEYWOOD Silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable wi...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Those who have the largest hearts, have the soundest understandings; and he is the truest philosophe...
WILLIAM HAZLITT No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth. The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and fur...
ALDOUS HUXLEY What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
C.G. JUNG For silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortabl...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain thei...
DANTE ALIGHIERI The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their n...
DANTE ALIGHIERI The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI Those who were left behind were glad on account of their sitting behind Allah's Apostle and they wer...
QURAN We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
THORNTON WILDER "Here's to those who wish us well and those who don't can go to hell." - Patsy Cline
PATSY CLINE Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
HEYWOOD BROUN A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
HEYWOOD BROUN The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
HEYWOOD BROUN Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
HEYWOOD BROUN Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always ...
HEYWOOD BROUN We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hat...
HEYWOOD BROUN Men are blind in their own cause.
HEYWOOD BROUN The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is ...
HEYWOOD BROUN The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
HEYWOOD BROUN Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
HEYWOOD BROUN Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for a...
HEYWOOD BROUN Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a cr...
HEYWOOD BROUN Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hu...
HEYWOOD BROUN In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in hi...
HEYWOOD BROUN A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
HEYWOOD BROUN The urge to gamble is so universal, and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
HEYWOOD BROUN Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
HEYWOOD BROUN Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
HEYWOOD BROUN The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
HEYWOOD BROUN The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
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JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're...
JOHN HEYWOOD Put your toong in your purse.
JOHN HEYWOOD The neer to the church, the further from God.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
This is commonly misquotes as You can't ha...
JOHN HEYWOOD Many hands make light work.
JOHN HEYWOOD A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
JOHN HEYWOOD Three may keep counsel, if two are away.
JOHN HEYWOOD Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.
THOMAS HEYWOOD Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head.
THOMAS HEYWOOD When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.)
JOHN HEYWOOD What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be gray.
JOHN HEYWOOD The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet.
JOHN HEYWOOD Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
JOHN HEYWOOD To drink away sorrow.
JOHN HEYWOOD As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.
JOHN HEYWOOD Better is to bow than breake.
JOHN HEYWOOD What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?
JOHN HEYWOOD Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
JOHN HEYWOOD If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent ...
JOHN HEYWOOD Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
JOHN HEYWOOD If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
JOHN HEYWOOD Tell tales out of school.
JOHN HEYWOOD Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
HEYWOOD BROWN What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
HEYWOOD BROWN Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.
JOHN HEYWOOD I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but al...
JOHN HEYWOOD Went in at the one eare and out at the other.
JOHN HEYWOOD I pray thee let me and my fellow have A hair of the dog that bit us last night.
JOHN HEYWOOD The world's a theatre, the earth a stage,
Which God and nature do with actors fill
JOHN HEYWOOD A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.
JOHN HEYWOOD The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
JOHN HEYWOOD 'Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?
JOHN HEYWOOD It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]
JOHN HEYWOOD Haste makes waste.
JOHN HEYWOOD This wonder lasted nine daies.
JOHN HEYWOOD An ill wind that bloweth no man good-- The blower of which blast is she.
JOHN HEYWOOD One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
JOHN HEYWOOD At our wittes end.
JOHN HEYWOOD What the dickens!
THOMAS HEYWOOD The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
THOMAS HEYWOOD Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
JOHN HEYWOOD Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can...
JOHN HEYWOOD God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.
JOHN HEYWOOD Yee have many strings to your bowe.
JOHN HEYWOOD It is good the have a hatch before the durre.
JOHN HEYWOOD Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was but Will.
THOMAS HEYWOOD To grow a philosopher's beard.
JOHN HEYWOOD To give importance to trifling matters.
JOHN HEYWOOD A precious pair of brothers [i.e., rascals].
JOHN HEYWOOD By hooke or crooke.
JOHN HEYWOOD Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
JOHN HEYWOOD Set all at sixe and seven.
JOHN HEYWOOD Nought venture nought have.
JOHN HEYWOOD Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.
JOHN HEYWOOD Two heads are better than one.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?This is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're c...
JOHN HEYWOOD All a green willow is my garland.
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JOHN HEYWOOD One good turn deserves another. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD Out of the frying pan into the fire. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
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CAREY HEYWOOD It may be too soon to say we hit bottom, but it's at least some indication that there isn't a lot lo...
JOHN HEYWOOD More things belong to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywo...
JOHN HEYWOOD They can legally cash in that account and spend it as they wish.
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HEYWOOD SANDERS The likelihood is that more space will not bring substantially increased attendance. The reality tha...
HEYWOOD SANDERS Many hands make light work. The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, / Which God and nature do with actors fill.
JOHN HEYWOOD Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
HAYWOOD HALE BROUN A woman hath nine lives like a cat.
JOHN B. HEYWOOD