Manna Quotes
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We loathe our manna, and we long for quails.
john dryden— 1682 The Medal, l.131.
She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew; And sure in language strange she said, 'I love thee true.'
john keats— 1820 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', stanza 7.
He seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason.
john milton— 1665 Of Belial. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.110-14.
Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven, however. My message certainly is not one of complacency. The ultimate resource is people — especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty — who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefit and inevitably benefit the rest of us as well.
julian simon— "The State of Humanity: Steadily Improving," Cato Institute Policy Report, September/October 1995 [3]
I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded in reality, and understanding of a sort of chaos theory...[that is to say] it needs to be part good intention, part political intelligence, and part political savvy and knowledge of international interests and national burdens. President Obama has been extremely short-sighted in this sense, and if he fails, it will be a tragic blow for peaceniks and multilateralists the world over, and a manna from heaven for the Republican party.
munir butt— Source: Foreign Affairs. 2009
Every word you wrote I ate, as if it were manna. Finding one's self in a book is a second birth; and you are the only one who knows that at times men behave like women and women like men, and that all these distinctions are mock distinctions.
anaïs nin— Collages (1964), p. 114
Though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book II, line 112.
Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.
— Jesus, Revelation 2:17.
They gathered up the crystal manna to freezeTheir tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing;Or rioted in a drift, plunging up to the knees.
robert bridges— London Snow, l. 20-22.
Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people.
— Lorenzo, scene i
