Gaius Plinius Secundus, ("The Elder") (23-79)
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man. Great short quote and quotation by: Gaius Plinius Secundus, (“The Elder”) (23-79) ,
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man. Great short quote and quotation by: Pliny the Elder , Roman scholar & scientist (23 AD – 79 AD)
Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past. Great short quote and quotation by: Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics , (448 BC – 400 BC)
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop. Great short quote and quotation by: Alfred Hitchcock , British movie director (1899 – 1980)
Dennis Miller (told to me by a CV employee)
This place makes Mayberry look like a think tank. Great short quote and quotation by: Dennis Miller (told to me by a CV employee) ,
This poem will never reach its destination. Great short quote and quotation by: Voltaire , French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)
This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read. Great short quote and quotation by: Winston Churchill ,
This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for […]
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William Shakespeare, "King Richard II", Act 2 scene 1
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the […]
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Great short quote and quotation by: Horace Walpole , English author (1717 – 1797)
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come. Great short quote and quotation by: Frederick William Robertson ,