The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. —Whitney Young More about this quote Tags: nobility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. —Solon More about this quote Tags: nobility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: nobility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. —Homer More about this quote Tags: nobility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Tags: nobility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. —Frank Lloyd Wright More about this quote Tags: nobility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. —William Pitt More about this quote Tags: necessity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Necessity has no law. —William Langland More about this quote Tags: necessity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Not even the gods fight against necessity. —Simonides More about this quote Tags: necessity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. —Zeno More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nature does require her times of preservation. —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things. —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. —Tennessee Williams More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. —Scott Westerfeld More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nature is wont to hide herself. —Jane Austen More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email