Wreaths famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
-- George Jones

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But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.
-- Hortense Calisher

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Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathÃ¨d Smiles.
-- John Milton

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What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.
-- Matthew Arnold

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A rose to the living is more Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.
-- Nixon Waterman

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To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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He was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of leaves and strung them around his neck.
-- Tove Jansson

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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
-- Victor Hugo

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Wearing green underwear today, I feel like a frog.
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.
Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection.
It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.
He who does not see God in the next person he meets need look no further.
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
There are no miracles on Mondays.
Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of the same thing.