Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too. - Philip James Bailey, Festus
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY I love night more than day--she is so lovely; But I love night the most because she brings My ...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lin...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY He hath no power that hath not power to use.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY My favoured temple is in an humble heart.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY I have a heart with room for every joy.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY We live in deeds


PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Kindness is wisdom.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Imagination is the air of mind.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The worst men often give the best advice.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY America! half brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Our similarities are different.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Defining night by darkness, death by dust.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY 'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Blessing star forth forever; but a curse Is like a cloud--it passes.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and e...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to th...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Nature means Necessity.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun in...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life T...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The heart is its own Fate.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the b...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, ...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The long days are no happier than the short ones.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY As proud as Lucifer.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out ...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poets are all who love,--who feel great truths, And tell them.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throb...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Every believer is God's miracle.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon ...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the ...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.) [Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.]
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and ca...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The stars, Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields Of heaven.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Surely the stars are images of love.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY What men call accident is God's own part
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold re...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Respect is what we owe; love, what we give
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Art is man's nature; nature is God's art
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Music tells no truths.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our car...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Could I love less, I should be happier now.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Love spends his all, and still hath store.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sum what is...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets;and the more We feel of poesie do ...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The sole equality on earth is death
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold re...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY [The seeds of Illumination's origin sprang from an idea lead singer Philip Bailey had of collaborati...
PHILIP BAILEY Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.
JAMES BAILEY We had a small terrace house for sale. The owners were posted to Singapore and were at a loss as to ...
JAMES BAILEY We played pretty good defense in the first half, then in the second half, we got out of our game pla...
JAMES BAILEY We've received, over the last 24 hours, nothing less than a bomb.
JAMES BAILEY What he did in the artistic field is what a lot of Japan's top name manufacturers did in their field...
JAMES BAILEY Our last vehicle got out with the water right behind it.
JAMES BAILEY His first words were 'How's my games?'
JAMES BAILEY His first words were, 'How's my games?'
JAMES BAILEY He was really upset, tears in his eyes. He thought the world of the fire department, still.
JAMES BAILEY Here in the body pent, / Absent from Him I roam, / Yet nightly pitch my moving tent / A day's march ...
JAMES MONTGOMERY BAILEY A blunderer is a man who starts a meat market during Lent
JAMES MONTGOMERY BAILEY It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to anothe...
BAILEY Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
DAVID BAILEY All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
DAVID BAILEY I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
DAVID BAILEY People want security in this insecure world.
DAVID BAILEY I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea...
DAVID BAILEY Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
DAVID BAILEY Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
DAVID BAILEY Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out...
DAVID BAILEY I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p...
DAVID BAILEY If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
DAVID BAILEY I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ...
DAVID BAILEY The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
DAVID BAILEY Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
DAVID BAILEY A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and lov...
PEARL BAILEY It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, th...
LAURA BAILEY I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from J...
LAURA BAILEY It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much...
LAURA BAILEY It really was a timing issue. We wanted to get the thing out there because we saw that they were sta...
ALAN BAILEY The key here is probably, and that's where we're hoping the judge will rule in our favor, alteration...
ALAN BAILEY There will be no planting for safety's sake, but we will accommodate (supervisors) regarding the ste...
ALAN BAILEY The day he did, we got beat a nose by Sportsman and protested unsuccessfully. Those are the breaks i...
ALAN BAILEY What a win. He got stopped in his tracks at the furlong and looked no hope.
ALAN BAILEY That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference...
GAMALIEL BAILEY There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne Cou...
GAMALIEL BAILEY George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to...
BAILEY CHASE 'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of ...
BAILEY CHASE I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, ...
BAILEY CHASE I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I...
BAILEY CHASE 'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger complim...
BAILEY CHASE 'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of ...
BAILEY CHASE I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye ...
BAILEY CHASE It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and...
BAILEY CHASE I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group wi...
BAILEY CHASE Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
BAILEY CHASE You never find yourself until you face the truth
PEARL BAILEY Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left.

Which ever side you think i...
JONATHAN BAILEY What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
PEARL BAILEY The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
PEARL BAILEY People see God every day, they just don't recognize Him.
PEARL BAILEY We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We shou...
DAVID BAILEY When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they...
BERNARD BAILEY There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have t...
PEARL BAILEY It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter b...
DAVID BAILEY There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat...
PEARL BAILEY All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was pass? at the time.
DAVID BAILEY A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
PEARL BAILEY To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
PEARL BAILEY There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour ...
PEARL BAILEY You cannot belong to anyone else until you belong to yourself.
PEARL BAILEY They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
JOSIAH BAILEY I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I lik...
DAVID BAILEY I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichev...
PEARL BAILEY Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
PEARL BAILEY Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no lo...
PEARL BAILEY The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
PEARL BAILEY What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -Pearl Bailey.
PEARL BAILEY I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I li...
DAVID BAILEY Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
GAMALIEL BAILEY A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and lov...
PEARL BAILEY I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd jus...
BAILEY CHASE It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.
DAVID BAILEY I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor c...
LAURA BAILEY I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't th...
DAVID BAILEY Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the su...
GAMALIEL BAILEY The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
DAVID BAILEY A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
DAVID BAILEY I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even en...
DONOVAN BAILEY I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the g...
DONOVAN BAILEY In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming...
DONOVAN BAILEY I'm a competitor.
DONOVAN BAILEY I think that every single person should play sports.
DONOVAN BAILEY I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's to...
DONOVAN BAILEY I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. T...
DONOVAN BAILEY You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on ...
DONOVAN BAILEY Always educate yourself.
DONOVAN BAILEY I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lo...
DONOVAN BAILEY I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic g...
DONOVAN BAILEY A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.
DONOVAN BAILEY Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.
DONOVAN BAILEY I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to r...
DONOVAN BAILEY That would be up to Congress.
BECKY BAILEY Yes, the costs are going up.
BECKY BAILEY It's going to be Monticello again. But it might be a new version of Monticello.
BECKY BAILEY It's going to be Monticello again, ... But it might be a new version of Monticello.
BECKY BAILEY Over the years, we have greatly tightened our quality control, and this is a highly unusual occurren...
BECKY BAILEY [The root of gentle discipline, Bailey says, is to verbalize the loving thoughts that lurk behind fe...
BECKY BAILEY