Quotes
Quotes about Effect
The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
Find out the cause of this effect,
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause.
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire.
Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd,
At certain revolutions all the damn'd
Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change
Of fierce extremes,--extremes by change more fierce;
From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round,
Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know
What dire effects from civil discord flow.
Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys,
Unfriendly to society's chief joys:
Thy worst effect is banishing for hours
The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Lofty designs must close in like effects.
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effectual as their strict construction.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colorless photography of a printed record.
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvellous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.
It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.
He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did.
Poetry of a surrealistic kind can, as a dream can, free the imagination from the trammels of daily cause and effect
But the real age, as we are always being told, is an effect of the mind. It is manifested chiefly in lack of interest in life
Spending half an hour or an hour, or two hours, on a piece of narrative fiction gives us the same kind of holistic, the same kind of total effect, the effect of being absorbed in an artistic experience without interruption that we get from listening to a piece of music
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.
