| 215 Famous Quotes by Unattributed Author
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“Your fame shall (spite of proverbs) make it plain
To write in water's not to write in vain.”
Fame Quotes Source: Art of Painting in Water Colours, in preface to Sir William Sanderson
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“Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat.
(Death levels sceptre and the law.)”
Death Quotes Source: inscribed over a 14th century mural painting once at Battle Church, Sussex
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“Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks.”
Death Quotes Source: Seven Champions (pt. III, ch. XI)
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“Go thou, deceased, to this earth which is a mother, and spacious
and kind. May her touch be soft like that of wool, or a young
woman, and may she protect thee from the depths of destruction.
Rise above him, O Earth, do not press painfully on him, give him
good things, give him consolation, as a mother covers her child
with her cloth, cover thou him.”
Death Quotes Source: Vedic Funeral Rite, quoted in the "New York Times" on the death of Buffalo Bill
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“Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.”
Death Quotes Source: Vedic Funeral Rite, quoted in the "New York Times" on the death of Buffalo Bill
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“But we that have but span-long life,
The thicker must lay on the pleasure;
And since time will not stay,
We'll add night to the day,
Thus, thus we'll fill the measure.”
Night Quotes Source: Duet printed 1795, probably of earlier date
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“"Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold,"
second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate.”
Courage Quotes Source: inscription on the Gates of Busyrane
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“To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly.
[Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]”
Goodness Quotes Source: on the town hall of Zittau, Saxony
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“The silente man still suffers wrong.”
Silence Quotes Source: The Rock of Regard, J.P. Collier's "Reprint", 1576
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“It's love, it's love that makes the world go round.”
Love Quotes Source: a popular French song in "Chansons Nationales et Populaires de France", vol. II, p. 180
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“Oh, tell me whence Love cometh!
Love comes uncall'd, unsent.
Oh, tell me where Love goeth!
That was not Love that went.”
Love Quotes Source: Burden of a Woman, found in J.W. Ebsworth's "Roxburghe Ballads"
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“I seek for one as fair and gay,
But find none to remind me,
How blest the hours pass'd away
With the girl I left behind me.”
Love Quotes Source: The Girl I Left Behind Me
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“Greensleeves was all my joy,
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
And who but Lady Greensleeves?”
Love Quotes Source: A new Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Greensleeves to the new tune of "Greensleeves", from "A Handful of
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“Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man--
Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!
Born the free heir of nature's wide domain,
To art's strict limits bounds his narrow'd reign;
Resigns his native rights for meaner things,
For Faith and Fetters, Laws and Priests and Kings.”
Man Quotes Source: Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin--The Progress of Man (l. 55)
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“Let us live then, and be glad
While young life's before us
After youthful pastime had,
After old age had and sad,
Earth will slumber over us.
[Lat., Gaudeamus igitur,
Juvenes dum sumus
Post pucundam juventutem.
Post molestam senectutem.
Nos habetit humus.]”
Life Quotes Source: (John Addington Symonds' translation)
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“Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take
Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port in safety.”
Life Quotes Source: epigraph from Soundings by A. Hamilton Gibbs
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“Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.”
Life Quotes Source: Knock On Any Door (Nick Romano character), in a movie
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“Life's but a span, or a tale, or a word,
That in a trice, or suddaine, is rehearsed.”
Life Quotes Source: The Roxburghe Ballads--A Friend's Advice (pt. II, edited by William Chappell)
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“If you will do some deed before you die,
Remember not this caravan of death,
But have belief that every little breath
Will stay with you for an eternity.”
Life Quotes Source: The Roxburghe Ballads--A Friend's Advice (pt. II, edited by William Chappell)
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“This ae nighte, this ae nighte
Every nighte and all;
Fire and sleete, and candle lighte
And Christe receive thye saule.”
Soul Quotes Source: Lyke-Wake Dirge (vol. III, p. 163), in Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Border" (T.F. Henderson's edition)
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“When treading London's well-known ground
If e'er I feel my spirits tire,
I haul my sail, look up around,
In search of Whitbread's best entire.
- Unattributed Author,”
Drinking Quotes Source: from "The Myrtle and the Vine"--A Complete Vocal Library--A Pot of Porter, Ho!
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“And I wish his soul in heaven may dwell,
Who first invented this leathern bottel!”
Drinking Quotes Source: Leathern Bottel
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“Drinking will make a man quaff,
Quaffing will make a man sing,
Singing will make a man laugh,
And laughing long life doth bring,
Says old Simon the King.
- Unattributed Author, Old Sir Simon the King,”
Drinking Quotes Source: Old Sir Simon the King, referring to Simon Wadloe, tavern-keeper at the "Devil," Fleet Street, about
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“This is the best world, that we live in,
To lend and to spend and to give in:
But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own,
It is the worst world that ever was known.”
World Quotes Source: A Collection of Epigrams
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“Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every
serious crisis is invariably wrong.”
World Quotes Source: Fortnightly Review--Armageddon--And After (p. 36)
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