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
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. —Heraclitus More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email