No useless sepulcher I crave: nature gives all her sons a grave
Horace
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MATTHEW ARNOLD Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man aw...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Those who Crave are sure to take disappointments to their Grave.
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ROBERTSON DAVIES One, who does not cast evil eyes on her 'own' house... who does not have malevolence towards her hus...
ATHARVA VEDA The grave, dread thing!
Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled,
Shakes off her wonted...
ROBERT BLAIR By Nebo's lonely mountain,
On this side Jordan's wave,
In a vale in the land of Moab,
Th...
MRS. CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.
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KAY HONEYMAN The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted fi...
ROBERT BLAIR The throne is a glorious sepulcher
EMPRESS THEODORA A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
GEORGE HERBERT Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence ...
H.G. WELLS Every girl should use what mother nature gives her before father time takes it away.
UNKNOWN Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down;
Where a green grassy turf is all I crave,
With h...
JAMES BEATTIE Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here an...
JAMES BEATTIE Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Mother Nature offers her nurturing essence to us all freely with no expectation of reciprocation.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ...
RONALD REAGAN Love her the way you crave to be loved.
PIERRE ALEX JEANTY There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE We wanted a stone on his grave. This gives him the recognition he deserves.
FRANK KELLY Poor Matilda! She sleeps in the Grave, and her broken heart throbs no more with passion.
MATTHEW LEWIS My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.
BRYANT GUMBEL Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Her [Diana's] blood family will do all they can to ensure her sons are not simply immersed by duty a...
CHARLES SPENCER Cleverness in itself is useless. It’s like a peacock’s feathers – an extravagant display used ...
SOLA KOSOKO Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.
DUANE CHAPMAN You mean to tell me,’ I said, ‘that every time I pleasure a young lady, I shoot into her two tho...
ROALD DAHL You're useless, I'm bored - yes or no?
SIMON COWELL Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to...
AGNES SMEDLEY I think, whatever mortals crave,
With impotent endeavor,
A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave--...
WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED No one thinks to make the goddess a cup of tea; they just ply her with useless perfumed oils and imp...
JADE CHANG My minde to me a kingdome is,
Such perfect joy therein I finde
As farre exceeds all earthly bl...
WILLIAM BYRD (BIRD) Trade hardly deems the busy day begun, Till his keen eye along the sheet has run; The blooming daugh...
CHARLES SPRAGUE Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect w...
LEONARDO DA VINCI When Nature had made all her birds,
With no more cares to think on,
She gave a rippling laugh ...
CHRISTOPHER PEARCE CRANCH In her experience all her friends relied,
Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
GEORGE CRABBE I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her.
V.C. ANDREWS I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley
HAROLD HOLZER Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.
HAROLD HOLZER Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy an...
DAVID SEABURY Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy ...
DAVID SEABURY Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and...
DAVID SEABURY Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from t...
CHARLES DICKENS The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted...
JOHN CONSTABLE Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
ANATOLE FRANCE No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?
HUGH MACKAY It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.
JIM HINCKLEY I desire Virtue, though I love her not-
I have no faith in her when she is got:
I fear that sh...
ANNA WICKHAM Her father protects ,her in childhood, her husband protects ,her in youth, and her sons protect ,her...
GURU NANAK The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner...
JOHN CAGE A rut is a grave with no ends.
ALAN LAMPKIN We naturally crave increase in all our endeavours
SUNDAY ADELAJA There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty...
GEORGE MACDONALD I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN I have a grave concern that they'll expedite the process to kill her with an overdose of morphine.
BOB SCHINDLER He is the English Horace,
ALEXANDER POPE I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
F. L. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune
LUCAN Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends
RALPH WALDO EMERSON She's a former Longhorn, and I'm one of her sons. Sign for my mom.
BRAD MCCLELLAN Sometimes i feel completely useless then i remember i breathe out carbon dioxide for plants so i gue...
CHRISPER MALAMSHA It is the touch of a lover's arms that I so desperately crave, not the memories of a love no longer ...
D.S. MIXELL No man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
SYDNEY SMITH I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave
SYDNEY SMITH Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes...
MAYA ANGELOU Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoe...
MAYA ANGELOU I welcome her feral nature.
KAREN MARIE MONING The same way nature gives a woman the grace & strength to carry the pregnancy burden & birth it,so a...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You have to want to come here, and she gives her all.
BOB BAUER How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
"I swear it," said the other mother. "I s...
NEIL GAIMAN She gives and gives but he never really gives back its her and only her, who is in the relationship,...
AMBER Looks like he's lost a guinea and found a farthing," Horace said, then added, unnecessarily, "Will, ...
JOHN FLANAGAN As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no mor...
BIBLE I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was ...
DAVID SANBORN The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.
JOHN STEINBECK Abraham had eight sons--not one. All eight sons bring something to the table. Abraham loved all of h...
MICHAEL BEN ZEHABE If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then bot...
DARRYL F. ZANUCK If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then bo...
DARRYL F. ZANUCK If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then bot...
DARYL F. ZANUCK Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you your...
ANDRE GIDE I crave attention and adventure.
EDDIE CIBRIAN A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.
AMIT KALANTRI When she puts a puppet on her hand, she lights up, she's very happy. When she performs, she just giv...
HEATHER ALLEN Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so,
Not for thy faults, but mine.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
WILLIAM OSLER There's no jealousy in the grave.
RUDYARD KIPLING I feel bad for all the families. We are all mothers, and they are all sons.
LORRAINE BYNUM I wasn't loved. I was just a dumping ground for her demons to rest in my heart to if it was their gr...
IAN IJH HOWELL Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON TrustE icons, ... are useless. No one understands what they mean.
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HORACE In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
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HORACE Gold will be slave or master.
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HORACE Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)
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HORACE In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
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HORACE When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
HORACE Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
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HORACE It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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HORACE Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
HORACE Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
HORACE Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be brief.
HORACE Those that are little, little things suit.
HORACE They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
HORACE Make a good use of the present.
HORACE To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
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HORACE The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE The covetous man is ever in want.
HORACE Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
HORACE Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
HORACE It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
HORACE He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
HORACE With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
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HORACE The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
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HORACE I will not add another word.
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HORACE It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
HORACE Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
HORACE A word once uttered can never be recalled.
HORACE Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
HORACE There is measure in all things.
HORACE With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
HORACE Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
HORACE Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
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HORACE Testy, querulous and given to praising the way things were when he was a boy.
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HORACE Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
HORACE It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
HORACE I shall not altogether die.
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HORACE Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by.
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