Quotes
Quotes about World
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?"
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.
He that knows not what the world is, knows not where he is himself. He that knows not for what he was made, knows not what he is nor what the world is.
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.
Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.
Asked from what country he came, he replied, "I am a citizen of the world."
But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.
Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.
Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
The world's a stage where God's omnipotence,
His justice, knowledge, love, and providence
Do act the parts.
From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste.
I take the world to be but as a stage,
Where net-maskt men do play their personage.
Give me but that, and let the world rub; there I 'll stick.
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to.
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
