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Quotes about Wonder


? John Bartlett, compYou hail from Dream-land, Dragon-fly?
A stranger hither? So am I,
And (sooth to say) I wonder why
We either of us came!

Agnes MFRDarmesteter

Go down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time, in lilac-time;
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it is n't far from London!)
And you shall wander hand in hand with love in summer's wonder-land;
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it is n't far from London!)

Alfred Noyes

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.

Plutarch

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets."

Plutarch

Cato the elder wondered how that city was preserved wherein a fish was sold for more than an ox.

Plutarch

Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.

Plutarch

Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

Old Testament

I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Old Testament

He gave in wonder to this world a pair of tormented eyeballs

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

Groucho Marx

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teen-ager wondering about each other.

Laurence J. Peter

It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

Dan Quayle

If you go into a situation with nothing planned, sometimes wonderful stuff happens.

Jerry Garcia

No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.

Yogi Berra

No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.

Yogi Berra

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Richard Ben Sapir

No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.

Yogi Berra

No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.

Yogi Berra

There must be more to life than sitting wondering if there is more to life.

There must be more to life than sitting wondering if there is more to life.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Kahlil Gibran

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Kahlil Gibran

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