Quotes 2541 till 2560 of 12730.
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom -
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
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How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!
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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
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How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
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How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
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How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
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How poor are they that have no patience.
Othello (1622) -
How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
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How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!
Adventures of Pinocchio. Ediz. Illustrata (2012 edition), Edimedia -
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child! -
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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