World Quotes

I rather like the world. The flesh is p[leasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793) Italian dramatist.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

Alexander Brome (1620-1666) English Poet.

So many worlds, so much to do. So little done, such things to be.

Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) English Poet.

That one vast thought of God which we call the world.

Bulwer.

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.

Mad. Swetchine.

He that will often place this world and the next before him, and look steadfastly at both, will find the latter constantly growing greater, and the former less to his view.

Knowledge of the world is dearly bought if at the price of moral purity.

E.Wigglesworth.

This world is a dream within a dream; and as we grow older, each step is an awaking. The youth awakes, as he thinks, from childhood; the full grown man despises the pursuits of youth as visionary; and the old man looks on manhood as a feverish dream. Death the last sleep? No! it is the last and final awaking!

Walter Scott.

It is a beautiful and a blessed world we live in, and while life lasts, to lose the enjoyment of it is a sin.

A.W.Chambers.

The heavens and the earth alike speak of God, and the great natural world is but another Bible, which clasps and binds the written one; for nature and grace are one grace the heart of the flower, and nature is surrounding petals.

H.W.Beecher.

The world is God’s epistle to mankind his thoughts are flshing upon as from every direction.

Plato.

Trust not the world, for it never payeth what is promiseth.

Augustine.

“The world,” is a conventional phrase, which being interpreted, signifies all the rascality in it.

Dickens.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Locke.

A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.

John Newton.

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

Colton.

The gratitude of the world is but the expectation of future favors; its happiness a hard heart and good digestion.

Walpole.

All the world’s ends, arrangements, changes, disappointments, hopes, and fears, are without meaning, if not seen and estimated by eternity!.

Tryon Edwards.

Hell is God’s justice; heaven is his love; earth, his long suffering.

We may despise the world, but we cannot do without it.

Baron Wessenberg.

The great see the world at one end by flattery, the little at the other end by neglect; the meanness which both discover is the same; but how different, alas! Are the mediums through which it is seen>

Greville.

You have too much respect upon the world; they lose is that do buy it with much care.

Shakespeare.

The world is seldom what is seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Moore.

Thou must content thyself to see the world imperfect as it is. Thou wilt never have any quiet if thou vexest thyself because thou canst not bring mankind to that exact notion of things and rule of life which thou hast formed in thy own mind.

Fuller