C. E. Montague quote: "To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off."

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you...
C. E. MONTAGUE

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have Certainty without any proof.
C. E. MONTAGUE

To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
C. E. MONTAGUE

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
ASHLEY MONTAGUE

"The Good Book" - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
ASHLEY MONTAGUE

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what o...
ASHLEY MONTAGUE

Each word's evocative value or virtue, its individual power of touching springs in the mind and of i...
C.E. MONTAGUE

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in th...
ASHLEY MONTAGUE

For me to watch those young kids light up those are truly things that are just priceless.
JAMES MONTAGUE

We know that great content, great speakers, and a venue that's a draw for physicians are all importa...
JAMES MONTAGUE

For a series of meetings, if you can reduce the no-show factor by even 1 percent, that can make a si...
JAMES MONTAGUE

As important as the venue and the menu are, they're secondary to the content.
JAMES MONTAGUE

When the guidelines say 'moderate by local standards,' you know that's different from Billings, Mont...
JAMES MONTAGUE

A lot of pharmaceutical companies have hired compliance managers to make sure that all aspects of a ...
JAMES MONTAGUE

Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?"
"Like something the cat dragged in, then ...
KIMBERLY MONTAGUE

It would be up to Amy and her parents to explore those opportunities. I've never met anyone so humbl...
LAURIE MONTAGUE

Obviously I've seen a lot of good players but I've never seen someone at 16 go into a four-round pro...
LAURIE MONTAGUE

I've seen (previous home office) deductions of anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000.
LARRY MONTAGUE

Most home-based business owners already qualify for the standard home office [tax] deduction. This n...
LARRY MONTAGUE

Swimming is my sport... my parents wanted to give me the best opportunity to excel.
JEFF MONTAGUE

I am looking to make the top four (in the 100) and I think we can place (in the top eight) in both r...
JEFF MONTAGUE

I think I can swim even faster, but I can't complain. I did as well as I could. I am happy to be abl...
JEFF MONTAGUE

Before the season, I never thought I would finish this high. You have to draw the line somewhere abo...
JEFF MONTAGUE

I feel very, very comfortable. Last year, this was a tough meet for me and I was discouraged. I knew...
JEFF MONTAGUE

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be ...
C. E. COGHILL

Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?
E. C. BENTLEY

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
C. E. STOWE

We cannot find in the Old Testament the fondly drawn distinction of our latter days between the natu...
E. C. RUST

Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 Owing to the pressure of an ever-i...
E. C. HOSKYNS

This coherence of the Bible itself, and of the Bible and the Church, is a coherence and a unity set ...
E. C. HOSKYNS

The Creeds were formulated gradually, as a result of a series of desperate controversies -- controve...
E. C. HOSKYNS

The Creeds... were formulated gradually, as a result of a series of desperate controversies -- which...
E. C. HOSKYNS

An innocent breath of life comes from the deep of all darkness! It just takes a moment, an instant a...
E. C. LEMUS

A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.
C. E. AYRES

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the di...
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE

War hath no fury like a non-combatant
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for i...
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distan...
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you...
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be us...
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE

I was born below par to th' extent of two whiskies.
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for i...
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do n...
DR. C. E. WELCH

Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and th...
C. E. M. JOAD

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

What is truth" I was asked. "Truth is neither good nor bad. Neither evil nor pure. It just is." That...
C. JOYBELL C.

There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly ...
C. JOYBELL C.

The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for,...
C. JOYBELL C.

Pink is a beautiful color, because it is one of the colors that the sun makes at twilight and in the...
C. JOYBELL C.

The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to hap...
C C COLTON

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest ma...
C C COLTON

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
C. C. COLTON

There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t...
C. JOYBELL C.

There are those whose primary ability is to spin wheels of manipulation. It is their second skin and...
C. JOYBELL C.

The goodness of a person is normally judged based upon how they act towards those whom they consider...
C. JOYBELL C.

Just because a person is attractive/beautiful, this does not mean it is okay to villainize them. We ...
C. JOYBELL C.

What kind of a world do we live in, when the good are taken advantage of by the bad, while the bad h...
C. JOYBELL C.

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves,...
C. JOYBELL C.

Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom h...
C. JOYBELL C.

As you go about your daily life, you will encounter many lemons. Sour expressions, sour attitudes, s...
C. JOYBELL C.

When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or...
C. JOYBELL C.

Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destin...
C. JOYBELL C.

I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process tha...
C. JOYBELL C.

For some people, “the point of no return” begins at the very moment their souls become aware of ...
C. JOYBELL C.

Love is like a good cake; you never know when it's coming, but you'd better eat it when it does!
C. JOYBELL C.

Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you c...
C. JOYBELL C.

You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your...
C. JOYBELL C.

Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and ov...
C. JOYBELL C.

I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to fi...
C. JOYBELL C.

It should be a privilege to be able to say "I love you" to someone. It shouldn't be something people...
C. JOYBELL C.

Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs t...
C. JOYBELL C.

I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all th...
C. JOYBELL C.

If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned...
C. JOYBELL C.

In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am alr...
C. JOYBELL C.

She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somew...
C. JOYBELL C.

They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of t...
C. JOYBELL C.

You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, al...
C. JOYBELL C.

We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matte...
C. JOYBELL C.

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have...
C. JOYBELL C.

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. ...
C. JOYBELL C.

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- ...
C. JOYBELL C.

There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage cer...
C. JOYBELL C.

You're going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that...
C. JOYBELL C.

A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside you...
C. JOYBELL C.

People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't ...
C. JOYBELL C.

Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.
C. JOYBELL C.

The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wr...
C. JOYBELL C.

Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that so...
C. JOYBELL C.

If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and eve...
C. JOYBELL C.

Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something...
C. JOYBELL C.

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.
C. JOYBELL C.

We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never...
C. JOYBELL C.

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the...
C. JOYBELL C.

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The onl...
C. JOYBELL C.

I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love...
C. JOYBELL C.

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So l...
C. JOYBELL C.

I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in ...
C. JOYBELL C.

When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the min...
C. JOYBELL C.

Don’t hate people who show you what’s wrong with you. They are your mirror, they are your true f...
C. JOYBELL C.

There are still some wonderful people left in this world! They are diamonds in the rough, but they'r...
C. JOYBELL C.

I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think...
C. JOYBELL C.

Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like ...
C. JOYBELL C.

Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the s...
C. JOYBELL C.

I cannot have a man who is afraid of everything, I don't have the time to soothe insecurities and fe...
C. JOYBELL C.

Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious ...
C. JOYBELL C.

I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the mos...
C. JOYBELL C.

When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the o...
C. JOYBELL C.

There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They ...
C. JOYBELL C.

Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, cri...
C. JOYBELL C.

The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are wit...
C. JOYBELL C.

I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing...
C. JOYBELL C.

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore...
C. JOYBELL C.

No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.
C. JOYBELL C.

And I told him, I said: "One day you're going to miss the subway because it's not going to come. One...
C. JOYBELL C.

Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people canno...
C. JOYBELL C.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.
C. C. MEHTA

Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in...
C. JOYBELL C.

The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the fac...
C. JOYBELL C.

The only problem with her is that she is too perfect. She is bad in a way that entices, and good in ...
C. JOYBELL C.

People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the ti...
C. JOYBELL C.

The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the lov...
C. JOYBELL C.

C. E. Montague

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