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Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.


Mark Akenside

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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
DORIS LESSING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH It's fantastic to see the kids with their new toys.
LISA MURRAY The Summer hath his joys, / And Winter his delights. / Though Love and all his pleasures are but toy...
THOMAS CAMPION terribly disappointed about the decision to deprive Mark of his liberty while he pursues his appeals...
CHARLES STILLMAN "I believe a loving Santa Claus, brings more than gifts & toys. He shares his Christ-like love, spre...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN When I bring you colored toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colors on clouds, ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The green retreats Of Academus.
MARK AKENSIDE And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, TO hid the feeling heart?
MARK AKENSIDE At last the Muses rose, . . . And scattered, . . . as they flew, Their blooming wreaths from fair ...
MARK AKENSIDE The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
MARK AKENSIDE Such and so various are the tastes of men.
MARK AKENSIDE Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.
MARK AKENSIDE This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all ...
MARK AKENSIDE The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
MARK AKENSIDE And the veil, spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, to hid the feeling heart.
MARK AKENSIDE The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
MARK AKENSIDE This was Shakespeare's form; Who walked in every path of human life, Felt every passion; and t...
MARK AKENSIDE Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursu...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But as I grew older, it became harder and harder to access that expansive imaginary space that made ...
ALLIE BROSH Little strokes fell great oaks.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Trifles make perfection--and perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge...
JOSH BILLINGS A small leak will sink a great ship.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stone...
CHINESE PROVERB For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Papa! You painted my nose!"
"I certainly did," her father said.
"But why?" Belle tried to ...
WALT DISNEY COMPANY Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.
ARISTOTLE The imaginary child implied by the toys on exhibit in Hong Kong was impossible to reconcile with my ...
DONOVAN HOHN Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
ARISTOTLE The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND There's not a more deserving man than him. The mark he's left on the community is fantastic.
BILL BEATTIE Revolutions are not about trifles, but they spring from trifles
ARISTOTLE Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Sinc...
HANNAH MORE Oh the brave Fisher's life, It is the best of any, 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, ...
IZAAK WALTON Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on ...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT You hate America, don't you?' 'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me...
KURT VONNEGUT Relax, princess. If your prince arrives, I'll vacate. Just keeping you company. Besides, he should k...
STACEY BALLIS Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.
MICHAELANGELO For the philosopher, language, thought, and passion are the same. Ideas are personal to a philosophe...
KILROY J. OLDSTER An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane, and pursues the obscure.
RICHARD REEVES Trifles go to make perfection,
And perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Know what you want and reach out eagerly for it.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Through every moment, through every event good or bad, there's a mark of time planted in someone's s...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Last night my imaginary friend died. So I took him to an imaginary graveyard and buried him in imagi...
YAMIN RASHEED The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.
JUVENAL Men are lead by trifles.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then...
SUN TZU My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
ISABEL ALLENDE Some problems are imaginary and not real.
RAJEN JANI Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Small minds are captivated by trifles.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Trifles make the sum of life.
CHARLES DICKENS Sometimes the joys of our youth do not translate to joys in adulthood and it’s hard to release them...
LAURA MONCUR In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such ...
WILKIE COLLINS We're eagerly awaiting a sign-off.
DAN BALLOU The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.
ROGER SCRUTON He wasn’t a good person, but I painted him to be and since I painted it, I believed it.
DOMINIC RICCITELLO Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
JUVENAL Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIA Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIA We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religionsbound together by a single unity, t...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Women are used to worrying over trifles.
SUSAN GLASPELL I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw...
EDVARD MUNCH And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They were so beautifully painted and unique.
JENNIFER THOMPSON Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half
FRANCIS BACON SR. Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars,...
FRANCIS BACON The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.
CHINESE PROVERB And I told you to bring nine toys, she said. you bought eight. Next time try to pay more attention. ...
NATHAN HILL It's not wise to welcome the inevitable, for it greets you coldly and eagerly enough.
CHARLES M FORD II The lines are really blurring between toys and gadgets.
HEATHER DOUGHERTY Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!
GILLES DELEUZE Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went s...
RICK RIORDAN Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are f...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary go...
SIMONE WEIL The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
GLASER AND WAY Calamity is man's true touchstone.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER A man must be potent and orgasmic to ensure the future of the race.
A woman only needs to be avai...
MASTERS AND JOHNSON The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
GLASER AND WAY Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
LICHTY AND WAGNER It has been said, in regard to a judo expert's level of mental development, that "the arms are an e...
WATANABE AND AVAKIAN

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The green retreats Of Academus.
MARK AKENSIDE And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, TO hid the feeling heart?
MARK AKENSIDE At last the Muses rose, . . . And scattered, . . . as they flew, Their blooming wreaths from fair ...
MARK AKENSIDE The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
MARK AKENSIDE Such and so various are the tastes of men.
MARK AKENSIDE Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.
MARK AKENSIDE This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all ...
MARK AKENSIDE The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
MARK AKENSIDE And the veil, spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, to hid the feeling heart.
MARK AKENSIDE The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
MARK AKENSIDE This was Shakespeare's form; Who walked in every path of human life, Felt every passion; and t...
MARK AKENSIDE An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing.
MARK I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'...
MARK BILLINGHAM Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
MARK TWAIN I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always ...
MARK SHRIVER My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
MARK TWAIN It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha...
MARK TWAIN We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
MARK SKOUSEN The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Flori...
MARK FOLEY The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
MARK TWAIN India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ...
MARK TWAIN Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
MARK TWAIN I never let schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
MARK TWAIN Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
MARK TWAIN The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed rig...
MARK TWAIN There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
MARK TWAIN In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
MARK TWAIN Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here firs...
MARK TWAIN But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one...
MARK TWAIN The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
MARK TWAIN The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
MARK TWAIN Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of ti...
MARK TWAIN It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
MARK TWAIN The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
MARK TWAIN The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
MARK TWAIN When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudony...
MARK ZUCKERBERG Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
MARK TWAIN Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
MARK TWAIN My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos...
MARK WARNER There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
MARK TWAIN Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
MARK TWAIN Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside...
MARK TWAIN Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
MARK TWAIN I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
MARK TWAIN The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAIN All generalizations are false, including this one.
MARK TWAIN 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.
MARK ZUCKERBERG The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba...
MARK TWAIN The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci...
MARK VONNEGUT There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan...
MARK ZANDI Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we sp...
MARK PAGEL I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term t...
MARK RONSON Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit...
MARK FRAUENFELDER Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
MARK TWAIN I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
MARK GATISS Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ...
MARK MCKINNON If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
MARK TWAIN I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
MARK ZUCKERBERG Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce...
MARK HOPKINS Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it...
MARK HAMILL What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!
MARK MCKINNEY To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
MARK EDWARDS What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...
MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...
MARK TWAIN When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu...
MARK TWAIN The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly...
MARK TWAIN By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
MARK TWAIN So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
MARK TWAIN The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes...
MARK TWAIN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w...
MARK TWAIN The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff...
MARK TWAIN Say the report is exaggerated.
MARK TWAIN A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ...
MARK TWAIN To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
MARK TWAIN I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ...
MARK TWAIN A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t...
MARK TWAIN Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st...
MARK TWAIN Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi...
MARK TWAIN Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to...
MARK TWAIN We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ...
MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people...
MARK TWAIN Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find...
MARK TWAIN Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood...
MARK TWAIN As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
MARK TWAIN I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshol...
MARK TWAIN Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than...
MARK TWAIN The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without burst...
MARK TWAIN When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
MARK TWAIN All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
MARK TWAIN The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...
MARK TWAIN To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ...
MARK TWAIN All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'pay...
MARK SKOUSEN Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset ...
MARK GATISS I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f...
MARK RUFFALO There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t...
MARK ZANDI I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you.
MARK MCKINNEY Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ...
MARK ZANDI James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t...
MARK WAHLBERG There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the ...
MARK GODDARD I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Los...
MARK GODDARD I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry abou...
MARK RONSON Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin...
MARK KELLY I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t...
MARK FROST We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunit...
MARK RUTTE We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-s...
MARK RUTTE We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to...
MARK ZUCKERBERG Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can affor...
MARK ZANDI The best person to get something done is a busy person.
MARK BURNETT The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good...
MARK STEYN I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres...
MARK MCKINNON Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we shoul...
MARK MCKINNON Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, t...
MARK HOPPUS The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,...
MARK ZANDI In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not tryi...
MARK WAHLBERG When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting th...
MARK WATERS Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
MARK TWAIN It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal...
MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired
MARK TWAIN It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
MARK TWAIN Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting...
MARK TWAIN To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
MARK TWAIN Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
MARK TWAIN The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse...
MARK TWAIN Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would ...
MARK TWAIN If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don'...
MARK FUHRMAN There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
MARK TWAIN The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things tha...
MARK TWAIN Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled
MARK TWAIN Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"
MARK TWAIN I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was rea...
MARK RUFFALO Distance lends enchantment to the view
MARK TWAIN Be good and you will be lonesome.
MARK TWAIN Chastity - you can carry it too far
MARK TWAIN The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline ...
MARK RUSSELL To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
MARK TWAIN Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it...
MARK TWAIN Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
MARK TWAIN Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshel...
MARK FRAUENFELDER Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk...
MARK BILLINGHAM China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main ...
MARK CARWARDINE When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
MARK TWAIN There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many...
MARK TWAIN Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
MARK TWAIN Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, out...
MARK FROST I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and lookin...
MARK TWAIN The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half ...
MARK EDWARDS A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
MARK RUTHERFORD Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would...
MARK TWAIN Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati...
MARK TWAIN Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material...
MARK TWAIN Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no...
MARK TWAIN There is a great deal of human nature in people.
MARK TWAIN If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
MARK TWAIN There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
MARK TWAIN The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monot...
MARK TWAIN Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat...
MARK TWAIN It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts th...
MARK TWAIN Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income...
MARK ZANDI Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe...
MARK KENNEDY There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles.
MARK ZUPAN Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f...
MARK LAWRENCE Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement,...
MARK TWAIN Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of t...
MARK TWAIN I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. ...
MARK UDALL I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things th...
MARK HADDON Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
MARK TWAIN We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
MARK TWAIN As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
MARK RUTTE He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magi...
MARK RYDELL I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it an...
MARK MCGWIRE O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover th...
MARK TWAIN A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
MARK TWAIN Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so,...
MARK TWAIN There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to...
MARK TWAIN All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will...
MARK MCCORMACK I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treas...
MARK TWAIN We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”
Snorri shook his head. “A...
MARK LAWRENCE Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich...
MARK TWAIN Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide i...
MARK TWAIN Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us...
MARK TWAIN Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
MARK TWAIN Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
MARK TWAIN I do not like work even when someone else does it.
MARK TWAIN Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not oblig...
MARK TWAIN Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
MARK TWAIN