Quotes 381 till 400 of 1686.
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Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.
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Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
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Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
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God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
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God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.
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Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
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Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
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Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian... Imagination is not required in any high degree.
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
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Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
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