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Giovanni Boccaccio Quotes
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Wide World of Quotes. Italian poet and story writer. Richard Aldington, tr., 1930). Richard Aldington, tr., 1930). The selection of the above quotes and the writing of the accompanying notes was performed by the author David Paul Wagner. 149; Contact Us. 149; Terms of Use. Wide World of Quotes.
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John Adams Quotes
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Wide World of Quotes. 1st vice-president and 2nd president of the United States. John Adams (1735-1826) was the second President of the United States (17971801). A lawyer and public figure, he a great advocate of American independence in 1776 and great champion of Enlightenment values and Federalism in the new United States republic. He is regarded as one of the key Founding Fathers of the United States. John Adams, Notes for an oration at Braintree (Spring 1772). I am well aware of the Toil and Blood a...
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Wide World of Quotes. American journalist and short story writer. 1842 - c. 1914). ABSURDITY, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. ACQUAINTANCE, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. ALLIANCE, n.: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot successfully plunder a third. APPLAUSE, n.: The echo of a platitude. SAINT n.: A dead sinne...
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Frédéric Bastiat Quotes
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Wide World of Quotes. Frédéric Bastiat Quotes. Frédéric Bastiat. French free market economist and political economist. When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. Who would not like to see all these benefits flow forth upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source? But is it possible? Is it not from the individuals themselves?
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Aesop Quotes
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Wide World of Quotes. Aesop (c. 6th century B.C.) was the author of Aesop's Fables. He was said to have been a slave in Samos (part of ancient Greece). Are a collection of animal tales. Each tale ends with a moral. Some of Aesop's most famous tales included The Fox and the Grapes, The Hare and the Tortoise and The Ant and the Grasshopper. It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. Aesop, The Ant and the Grasshopper, in: Aesop's Fables. Aesop, The Dog in the Manger, in: Aesop's Fables.
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Woody Allen Quotes
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Wide World of Quotes. American film actor and director. Woody Allen in the 1970s. I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot. Take the Money and Run. Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. My Philosophy in Getting Even. Only if its done right. Everything You've Always Wanted to Know about Sex. It's not that I am afraid to die. just don't want to be there when it happens. Death: A Comedy in One Act. It's my second favorite organ. Speaking of sex). Annie Hall.
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Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Wide World of Quotes. Irish author and playwright. Spend the years of learning squandering. Courage for the years of wandering. Through a world politely turning. From the loutishness of learning. Gnome in Dublin Magazine. Vol 9 (1934), p. 8. We're waiting for Godot. Who may tell the tale. Of the old man? Weigh absence in a scale? Mete want with a span? Of the world's woes? Sitting at her window. Quiet at her window. 149; Contact Us. 149; Terms of Use. Wide World of Quotes.
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Emily Bronte Quotes
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Wide World of Quotes. English novelist and poet. Oh, for the time when I shall sleep. Oh, For the Time When I Shall Sleep. No coward soul is mine,. No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:. I see Heaven's glories shine,. And faith shines equal, arming me from fear. No coward soul is mine (1846). Vain are the thousand creeds. That move men's hearts: unutterably vain;. Worthless as withered weeds. No coward soul is mine (1846), last lines. Oh dreadful is the checkintense the agony. I lingered ro...
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Joseph Addison Quotes
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Wide World of Quotes. English poet, dramatist, essayist, and co-founder of The Spectator. And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform,. Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. Tis not in mortals to command success,. But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. A day, an hour of virtuous liberty. Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men hold sway,. The post of honour is a private station. The Man of the Town. It was said of...
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John Bunyan Quotes
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Wide World of Quotes. English writer and Nonconformist preacher. Some said, John, print it; others said, Not so. Some said, It might do good; others said, No. Apology for his Book. As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world. The name of the slough was Despond. But now in this Valley of Humiliation poor Christian was hard put to it, for he had gone but a little way before he espied a foul Fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon. Hanging is too good for him, said Mr Cruelty.
