Escritas — Quotes

Lord Byron

Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.

Leonardo da Vinci

Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

William Shakespeare

The quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels. Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I’ the posture of a whore.

Dylan Thomas

There is always one right word; use it, despite its foul or merely ludicrous associations.

Mark Twain

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

Edward Young

Man wants but little, nor that little long.

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William Shakespeare

For herein Fortune shows herself more kind Than is her custom: it is still her use To let the wretched man outlive his wealth, To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow An age of poverty.

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Wallace Stevens

The President ordains the bee to be Immortal.

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Lord Byron

Let these describe the undescribable.

Leonardo da Vinci

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?

William Shakespeare

I wish you joy of the worm.

Charles Baudelaire

What is that sad, dark island?—It is Cythera, They tell us, a country famous in song, Banal Eldorado of all the old bachelors. Look! after all, it is a poor land! 8

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Mark Twain

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

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Edward Young

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

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William Shakespeare

I have a daughter; Would any of the stock of Barabbas Had been her husband rather than a Christian!

Aristóteles

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Lord Byron

The starry Galileo, with his woes.

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Leonardo da Vinci

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal’s murder the same way they look today upon a man’s murder.

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William Shakespeare

I have Immortal longings in me.

George Orwell

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

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Mark Twain

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story .

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Edward Young

By night an atheist half believes a God.

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William Shakespeare

An upright judge, a learned judge!

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Wallace Stevens

Booming and booming of the new-come bee.

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Lord Byron

The poetry of speech.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

William Shakespeare

Husband, I come.

Charles Baudelaire

O Death, old captain, it is time! raise the anchor! 9

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Mark Twain

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

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Edward Young

Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

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William Shakespeare

Now, infidel, I have thee on the hip.

Aristóteles

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

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Lord Byron

O Rome! my country! city of the soul!

Leonardo da Vinci

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

William Shakespeare

If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, Which hurts, and is desir’d.

Toni Cade Bambara

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I’ve seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges. I’ve felt them doing it. Words conjure. I try not to be careless about what I utter, write, sing. I’m careful about what I give voice to.

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Mark Twain

Comparison is the death of joy.

Edward Young

Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

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William Shakespeare

A Daniel, still say I; a second Daniel! I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.

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Wallace Stevens

That in each other are included, the whole, The complicate, the amassing harmony.

Lord Byron

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

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Leonardo da Vinci

I wish to work miracles

William Shakespeare

Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep?

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Charles Baudelaire

Be charming, and shut up! 10

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Mark Twain

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

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Edward Young

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

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William Shakespeare

You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.

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Aristóteles

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

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