Quotes
Quotes about World
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, -Unknown.
The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.
For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.
A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world.
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world. [Ger., Wir Deutschen furchten Gott, sonst aber Nichts in der Welt.]
In sight of peace--from the Narrow Seas O'er half the world to run-- With a cheated crew, to league anew With the Goth and the shameless Hun.
Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.
Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]
The glory of Him who Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created.
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
The ocean: rocking cradle of the world, sunset stairway to the stars .. only by great masters trod, only written on by God.
Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we? [Lat., O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?]
(Portia:) A quarrel ho! already! What's the matter? (Gratiano:) About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring That she did give me, whose posy was For all the world like cutler's poetry Upon a knife--'Love me, and leave me not.'
There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:.
