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Liquide constet inter virum et uxorem amorem sibi locum vindicare non posse. It is clearly certain that between man and wife love can claim no place.
It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
From the cradle to the grave, Even if I misbehave, There's a place for me On government subsidy.
All rising to great place is by a winding stair.
Well,I'm leaving thepoorold place, and itcuts as keenas a knife; The place that's broken my heartthe place where I've lived my life.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Inmy Father'shousearemanymansions: if it werenot so, Iwould havetold you.Igotopreparea placefor you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.
All Dressed Up and No Place to Go.
I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.
A savage place! as holyand enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
Canada isnot reallya placewhereyouare encouragedto have large spiritual adventures.
For God's sake, hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five grey hairs, or ruined fortune flout, With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve, Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his honour, or his grace, Or the King's real, or his stamped face Contemplate; what you will, approve, So you will let me love.
The advantage of time and place in practical actions is half the victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
His colours laid so thick on every place, As only showed the paint, but hid the face.
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.
Dust in the air suspended Marks the place where a story ended.
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
In sculpture, did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoo« n how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
What use the green river, the gold place, if time and death pinned human in the pocket of my land not rest from taking underground the green all-willowed and white rose and bean flower and morning-mist picnic of song in pepper-pot breast of thrush?
Fromthefirst place of liquid darkness, within thesecond place of air and light, I set down the following record with itsmixture of fact and truths and memories oftruths and its direction always toward theThird Place, where the starting point is myth.
On the Beach is a storyabout the end of the world, and Melbourne sure is the right place to film it.
And when a lady's in the case, You know, all other things give place.
Nor second he, that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of ecstasy, The secrets of th'abyss to spy. He passed the flaming bounds of place and time: 370 The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
There is a certainrelief in change, even though it be from bad toworse Ihave oftenfound intravelling ina stage- coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home to Me.
Surelyarchitecture is the organization for pleasure of enclosed space. And what more magnificent enclosure than a town, a place, a place where the spirit is cuddled, made serene, made proud, happy, or excited depending on the ceremony, the day, the hour.
The place where bulls and foxes dine very well, but lambs end up head down on the hook.
There's no place where success comes before work, except in the dictionary.
Land of our birth, we pledge to thee Our love and toil in the years to be; When we are grown and take our place, As men and women with our race.
If you aren't native to a place you have an excellent chance of becoming a gentleman in it.
L'accent du pays o u' l'on est ne demeure dans l'esprit et dans le c½ur comme dans le langage. The accent of the place in which one was born lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one's speech.
Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity: And your quaint honour turn to dust; And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I thinkdo there embrace.
No creature loves an empty space; Their bodies measure out their place.
If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternallyanchored.One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
Some natural tears theydropped, but wiped themsoon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
You bind the goods and trappings of your life together with your dreams to make a place that is uniquely your own.
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Moore Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.
A place as kind as it isgreen, the greenest place I've never seen. Every name is a tune.
Many things are unspoken In the life of a man, and with a place there is an unspoken love also in undercurrents, drifting, waiting its time.
Oh these deceits are strong almost as life. Last night I dreamt I was in the labyrinth, And woke far on. I did not know the place.
Suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place The inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker, that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose whichwe find it actually toanswer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.
L'architecture est le miroir me" me de la vie. Il n'est que de jeter les yeux sur des e difices pour sentir la pre sence du passe , l'esprit d'un lieu; ils sont le reflet de la socie te . Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.
I have been here a fortnight and I think I shall be here fifteen or twenty days longer, although I do not very much like the place, for this puddling in a tub continually is no charm to me.
Consult the genius of the place in all.
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.
They had their being once and left a place to stand on.
There is no looking-glass here and I don't know what I am like now. I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself and yet not quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between ushard, cold and misted over with my breath.Now they havetaken everything away.What am I doing in this place and who am I?
In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
It is trulya place for self-presentationof oneself, to oneself. A fitting sign of the self-absorbed 1980s.
Great God! This is anawful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.
No repose for Sir Walter but in the grave. Friends, don't let me expose myselfget me to bedthat's the only place.
The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Tryas one may to stress the cultural and historical role of the placeit still conveys one overwhelmingly powerful image to your average Englishman: the dirty weekend.
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.Everyone who isborn holds dual citizenship, inthekingdomofthewell and inthekingdomofthesick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooneror latereach of us is obliged, at least fora spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.
Show me a man who cares no more for one place than another, and I will show you in that same person one who loves nothing but himself. Beware of those who are homeless by choice.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Happy those early days when I Shined in my Angel-infancy. Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back (at that short space) Could see a glimpse of His bright face. When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity.
: What do you think of marriage? : I take't, as those that deny purgatory, It locally contains or heaven, or hell; There's no third place in't.
What ismorality inany given time or place? It iswhat the majority thenand therehappento like, and immorality is what they dislike.
WhenYou're All Dressed Up and Have No PlaceTo Go.
We havefought for our place in the sun and have won it.It will be my business to seethat we retain this place in the sun unchallenged.
A rather bitter Britishmusicianonceremarked sourly toa friend of mine: 'Oh, all she knows about music she learned in bed with musicians.' To that, I can only add, what better place to learn?
An open place it was, and overlooked, From high, the sullen water far beneath, On which a dull red image of the moon Lay bedded, changing oftentimes its form Like an uneasy snake.
In the very world, which is the world Of all of us,the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all!
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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