Hair Quotes

Fair tresses man’s imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet.

The hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
Oliver Herford (1863-1935) American poet, illustrator.

The only thing that can stop hair falling is the floor.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist.

Hair, in fact, is probably the bane of most women’s lives.
Joan Collins (b.1933) British film and television actress.

The lovely hair that Galla wears Is hers who could have thought it? She swears this hers; and true she swears, For I know where she bought it!
Martial (c.40-c. 104) Roman Poet.

Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
Bible, Genesis.

The hair is the richest ornament of women. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were is mourning.
Luther.

Her head was bare, but for her native ornament of hair, which in a simple knot was tied; sweet negligence unheeded bait of love.
Dryden.

Fair tresses man’s imperial race ensnare, and beauty draws us with a single hair.
Pope.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
Bancroft.

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!.
Shakespeare.

Soft hair, on which light drops a diadem.
Massey.

Those curious locks, so aptly twined, whose every hair a soul doth bind.
Carew.

Beware of her fair locks, for when she winds them round a young man’s neck, she will not set him free again.
Goethe.

Her sunny locks hang on her temples like a golden fleece.
Shakespeare.

The hairs of age are messengers which bid us to repent and pray. Of death they are the harbingers that do prepare the way.
Vaux.

Hair, “tis the robe which curious nature weaves to hang upon the head, and to adorn our bodies. When we were born, God doth bestow that garment. When we die, then like a soft and silken canopy it still is over us. In spite of death, our hair grows in the grave, and that alone looks fresh, when all our other beauty is gone.
Decker.

My hair is gray, but not with years,
Nor grew it white
In a single night,
As men’s have grown with sudden fears.
BYRON, The prisoner of chilian.

Babies haven’t any hair;
Old men’s heads are Just as bare;-
Between the cradle and the grave
Lies a haircut and a shave

Not Ten Yoke Of Oxen
Have the power to dram us
Like a women’s hair.

Guilt Quotes

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754) English novelist, dramatist.

I had most need of blessing and “Amen” Stuck in my throat.

The offender never forgives.

Russian proverb.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself.

R.D. Laing (b.1927) British psychiatrist.

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

Horace Bushnell.

God hath yoked to guilt, her pale tormentor, misery.

Bryant.

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in lost perdition ends.

Young.

Adversity, how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

Blair.

The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.

Shakespeare.

It is the inevitable end of guilt that it places its won punishment on a chance which is sure to occur.

L.E. Landon.

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

Wordsworth.

Better it were, that all the miseries which nature owns were ours at once, than guilt.

Shakespeare.

To what deep gulfs a single deviation from the track of human duties leads.

Byron.

He who is conscious of secret and dark designs, which, if known, would blast him, is perpetually shrinking and dodging from public observation, and is afraid of all around, and much more of all above him.

W. Wirt.

The guilty mind debases the great image that it wears, and leaves us with brutes.

Hovard.

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

Shakespeare.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

South.

The guilt that feels not its own shame is wholly incurable. It was the redeeming promise in the fault of Adam, that with the commission of his crime came the sense of his nakedness.

Simms.

Thought it sleep long, the venom of great guilt, when death, or danger, or detection comes, will bite the spirit fiercely.

Shakespeare.

Guilt once happened in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Johnson.

Guilt is the source of sorrow, the avenging fiend, that follows us behind with whips and stings.

Rowe.

The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed.

Shakespeare.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

Cicero.

Guiltiness with speak though tongues were out of use.

Shakespeare.

Oh, that pang, where more than madness lies, the worm that will not sleep, and never dies.

Byron.

Oh. What a state is guilt! How wild, how wretched, when apprehension can from nought but fears, and we distrust security itself.

Havard.

Guest Quotes

Mankind is divisible into two great classes; hosts and guests.

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) British author.

The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest.

Edouard Laboulaye (1811-1883) French writer, satirist.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) American author.

Fish and visitors smell in three days.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer.

If you would lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer.

Frank Harries in invited to all the great houses in England once.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.

When a man has been highly honored and has eaten a little he is most benevolent.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher.

True friendship’s laws are by this rule expressed; welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Pope.

Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight.

Shakespeare.

The first day, a guest; the second, a burden’ the third, a pest.

Laboulaye.

Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone.

Shakespeare.

Let the one you would welcome to your hospitality, be one you can welcome to your respect and esteem, if not to your personal friendship.

For I, who hold sage Homer’s rule the best,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Pope, Satires, II

Grief Quotes

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English prime minister.

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to want to do so.

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) German author, critic.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Seneca (c.5-65) Roman writer, philosopher, statesman.

We often console ourselves for being unhappy by a certain pleasure in appearing so.

Francois, Due de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer, moralist.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

A.S. Byatt (b.1936) British author.

Sorrow, the great idealizer.

People in distress never think that you feel enough.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Seneca (c.5-65) Roman Writer, philosopher, statesman.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Bible, Psalms.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.

F.W. Robertson.

There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.

Dante.

Sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.

Tennyson.

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom is hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but only sorrow can consecrate.

Horace Greeley.

Light grief’s are plaintive, but great ones are dumb.

Seneca.

Every one can master a grief but he that hath it.

Shakespeare.

No grief is so acute but that time ameliorates it.

Cicero.

Time is the great comforter of grief, but the agency by which it works is exhaustion.

L.E. Landon.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead; excessive grief the enemy of the living.

Shakespeare.

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy, would appear to be objects of pity?

Metastasio.

Who fails to grieve when just occasion calls, or grieves too much, deserves not to be blest: inhuman, or effeminate, his heart.

Young.

Grief should be like joy, majestic, sedate, confirming, cleansing, equable, making free, strong to consume small troubles, to command great thoughts, grave thoughts, thoughts lasting to the end.

De Vere.

Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.

Longfellow.

Some grief shows much of love; but much of grief shows still some want of wit.

Shakespeare.

Gravity Quotes

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it.

Confucius.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

Lavater.

Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.

Dryden.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the defect of the mind.

Rochefoucauld.

The very essence of assumed gravity is design, and consequently deceit; a taught trick to gain credit with the world fro more sense and knowledge than a man is worth.

Sterene

There is a gravity which is not austere not captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart, but arise from tenderness and hangs on reflections.

Landor.

All the sobriety religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces. When men say “be Sober”, they usually mean “be stupid>’ when the Bible says “be sober,” it means “rouse up to the earnestness and vivacity of life,’ the old scriptural sobriety was effectual doing; ascetic sobriety is effectual dullness.

H.W. Beecher.

An in a man’s life, so in his studies, it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world so to mingle gravity with pleasure, that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.

Pliny.

There is a false gravity that is a very ill symptom; and as rivers which run very slowly have always most mud at the bottom, so a solid stiffness in the constant course of a man’s life, is the sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain.

Saville.

Gravity is but the rind of wisdom; but it is a preservative rind.

Joubert.

Gravity is the very essence of imposture; it not only mistakes other things, but is apt perpetually to mistake itself.

Shaftesbury.

Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.

Cecil.

Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps the mind steady.

Fuller.

There is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and which is most holy; and there is a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble, and a gravity proceeding from dullness and mere incapability for enjoyment, which is most base.

Ruskin.

Gravity the body’s wisdom to conceal the mind.

Young.

As in our lives, so also in our studies it is most becoming and most wise to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy ,nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.

Pliny.

Grave Quotes

A grave, wherever found, preaches as short and pithy sermon to the soul.

Hawthorne.

Earth’s highest station ends in “Here he lies,” and “Dust to dust” concludes the noblest  songs.

Young.

The grave buries ever error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb that he should have warred with the poor handful of dust that lies moldering before him.

Washington Irving.

It is sadness to sense to look to the grave, but gladness to faith to look beyond it.

A Christian graveyard is a cradle, where, in the quit motions of the globe, Jesus rocks his sleeping children. By and by he will wake them from their slumber, and in the arms of angels they shall be translated to the skies.

G.B. Cheever.

An angel’s arm can’t snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can’t confine me there.

Young.

The disciples found angels at the grave of him they loved, and we should always find them, too but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.

H.W. Beecher.

All along the pathway of life are tombstones, by the side of which we have promised to strive for heaven.

The churchyard is the market-place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.

Baxter.

When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies within me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out.

Addison.

We go to the grave of a friend, saying, “A man is dead”, but angels throng about him, saying, “ A man is born.”

H.W. Beecher.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

Tryon Edwards.

Of all the pulpits from which the human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Ruskin.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip of Macedon.

The ancients feared death; we, thanks to Christianity, fear only dying.

Guesses at Truth.

I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls the burial ground “God’s acre!” it is just; it consecrates each grave within its walls, and breathes a benison over the sleeping dust.

Longfellow.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley.

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,

And all that beauty, all that wealth ever gave,

Awaits alike th’ inevitable hour.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Our hearts, though stout and brave,

Still like muffled drums are beating

Funeral marches to the grave.

Longfellow, A Psalm of Life.

The grave’s fine and private place,

But none, I think, do there embrace.

Fro rain it hath a friendly sound

To one who’s six feet underground:

And scarce the friendly voice or face:

A grave is such a quiet place.

Man goeth to his long home.

There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not. It is enough” The grave: and the barren womb: the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not. It is enough.

There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.

Gratitude Quotes

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly.. is having to accept it.

William Faulkner (1897-1962) American novelist.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucaudl (1613-1690)

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Josef Stalin (1879-1953) USSR dictator.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure but because obligation is a pain.

Sr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a condition to render them service.

Is it not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing the praises of my devourer?

Feoder Dostoievski (1821-1881) Russian novelist.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

N.P. Willis.

If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.

Seneca.

In noble hearts the feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion.

Poincelot.

A grateful thought toward heaven is of itself a prayer.

Lessing.

Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues, the most capital of all duties, and use the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character.

Bate.

Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.

Romaine.

Our thanks should be as fervent for mercies received, as our petitions for mercies sought.

C. Simmons.

He that urges gratitude pleads the cause both of God and men, for without it we can neither be sociable nor religious.

Seneca.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and a happy mind.

Secker.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

Charron.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not on our power to repay it.

Franklin.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who a grateful sense of it has requited it.

Cicero.

When I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were rich.

Pope.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Seneca.

Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.

Mad. Swetchine.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our begin, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Seneca.

O Lord, who lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.

Shakespeare.

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the Book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

Jeremy Taylor.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Colton.

Grace Quotes

“What is grace?” was asked forty years, had been a slave. “Grace”, he replied “is what I should call giving something for nothing.”

The king becoming graces are justice, verity, temperance, stableness, bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, devotion, patience. Courage, fortitude.

Shakespeare.

Let grace and goodness be the principal load stone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas tat which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Dryden.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Cice.

The Christian grace are like perfumes, the more they are pressed, the sweeter they small; like stars that shine brightest in the dark; like trees which. The more they are shaken, the deeper root they take, and the more fruit they bear.

Beaumont.

The word “Grace” in an ungracious mouth is profane.

Shakespeare.

Virtue, wisdom, goodness, and real worth, like the load stone, never lose their power. These are the true graces, which are linked hand in hand, because it is by their influence that human hearts are so firmly united to each other.

Burton.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Jonathan Edwards.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men’s weakness.

H.W. Beecher.

The growth of grace is like the polishing of metals. There is first an opaque surface; by and by you see a spark darting out, than a strong light; till at length it sends back a perfect image of the sun the shines upon it.

Payson.

There is no such way to attain to greater measure of grace as for a man to live up to the little grace he has.

Brooks.

Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning; then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness.

T. Adams.

You pray for the graces of faith and hope and love; but prayer alone will not bring them. They must be wrought in you through labor and patience and suffering. They are not kept put up in bottles for us, to be had for the mere asking; they must be the outgrowth of the life. Prayer for them will be answered, but God will have us work out each one in the way of duty.

H.W. Beecher.

The being of grace must go before the increase of it; for there is no growth without life, and no building without a foundation.

Lavington.

As grace is first from god, so it is continually from him, as much as light is all day long from the sun. as well as at first dawn or at sun rising.

Jonathan Edwards.

As heart is opposed to cold, and light to darkness, so grace is opposed to sin. Fire and water as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

T.Brooks.

Grace is to the body, what good sense is to the mind.

Rochefoucauld.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

Bacon.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Hazlitt.

All the actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the offspring of the moment, without affection, and free from all pretense.

Fuseli.

How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.

Coleridge.

It is graceful in a man to think and speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth.

Cicero.

An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.

Government Quotes

The Athenians govern the Greek; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, author.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan (b.1911) American president.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a “taxing machine” to the contented a “machine for securing property”.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish author.

Government has no other end than the preservation of property.

John Locke (1632-1704) English philosopher.

The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological.. at one level it is simply thwarted greed; since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.

Gore Vidal (b.1925) American novelist.

The business of Government is to see that no other organization is as string as itself.

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) American president.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William E. Borah (1865-1940) American politician.

To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded by beings who hav neither title, knowledge nor virtue.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government , a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

We mustn’t be stiff and stand off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

The government of the world I live in was not farmed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

At the very heart of British government there is a luxuriant and voluntary exclusion of talent.

Brian Chapman (b.1923) British academic.

It is the duty of Her Majesty’s Government neither to flap nor to father.

The authorities were at their wit’s end, nor had it takes them long to get there.

Desmond MacCarthy (1877-1952) British critic.

Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory or rules or f races, but the happiness of the common man.

William Beveridge (1879-1963) British economist.

For forms of government. Let fools contest, whatever is best administered is best.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English Poet.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

George Washington (1732-1799) American President.

Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

They that govern most make least noise. In wrong a barge, they that do drudgery work, slash, puff, and sweat; but he that governs, sits quietly at the stern, and scarce is seen to stir.

Selden.

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

H.J. Van Dyke.

The less government we have the better the fewer laws and the less conflided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character, the growth of the individual.

Emerson.

Men well governed should seek after no other liberty, for there can be no greater liberty than a good government

Sir W. Raleigh.