O Quotes
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“Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version
“Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.”
“Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse”
“Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.”
“Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.”
“Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.”
“Of many large volumes the index is the best portion and the usefullest. A glance through the casement gives whatever knowledge of the interior is needful. An epitome is only a book shortened; and as a general rule, the worth increases as the size lessens.”
Source: Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature
“Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.”
“Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.”
Source: Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of the imagination. Letters. Irene. Miscellaneous poems
“Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.”
Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric
“Of men eternally dear! happy indeed
If you have breathing-space
From pain: blessed all the more
If death should heal you of the pain you fear!”
“Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.”
“Of Mermaids: ‘Sure, the preening things are comely enough, but I think any sensible man should prefer his woman be properly bifurcated.”
Source: Calamity at Conclave
“Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.”
“Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.”
“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.”
Source: Readings from Huxley
“Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.”
Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion
“Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.”
Source: Medea
“Of most dreadful suffering, I am the cause.”
Source: Electra
“Of multiple unfathomable coincidences or complicities, we say: 'It's too good to be true.' And we invoke the Unconscious. But the Unconscious itself is too good to be true. Behind all that might there not be some cruel divinity or some external fate? But we prefer the id and the drives that are the psychical reappropriation of these things. We prefer our perverse desires, our masochism and our death drive to the ill-will of the gods. If it isn't I, ego, then it's the id. If it isn't the id, it's its brother. That is always better than an external demon.”
Source: Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting. I walked forever through reachless oblivion, in the mood of one smelling night-blooming, and suddenly-My ravishers left their traces in me, male and female, and over the months I rounded, grew heavy, until the scandal could no longer be concealed and oblivion expelled me. But this is I have in common with all my kind. By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it. So they seal the door against our returning.”
Source: Housekeeping
“Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.”
“Of my father I know even less than of my mother. I do not even know his name. I have heard reports to the effect that he was a white man who lived on one of the near-by plantations. Whoever he was, I never heard of his taking the least interest in me or providing in any way for my rearing. But I do not find especial fault with him. He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.”
Source: Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
“Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. (...) I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.”
“Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret”
“Of my friends I am the only one left.”
“Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.”
Source: William Lilly's History of His Life and Times from the Year 1602 to 1681
“Of my investments that have been realised, buying my first house turned out to be a pretty good move, which I didn't really realise at the time.”
“Of my many misdemeanors, standing tall like a radio tower and airing love songs has been the worst.”
Source: Lover
“Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.”
“Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.”
Source: The Biglow papers
“Of my own experience at Princeton as a graduate, with honors, of the Class of 1927, I will not speak: except to say that it was instructive, and illuminating; and if I had to repeat it again, I would hang myself.”
Source: The Accursed
“Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Of my own, I like my upper stomach. I just seem to always have abs.When I'm not really pregnant, I have a great two-pack.”
“Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.”
“Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary”
Source: The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic
“Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.”
“Of myself, I am not the end of anything. But in God’s hands, I can be the beginning of many things.”
“Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.”
“Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.”
“Of necessity, indoctrination must legitimize itself by dressing itself in the garb of ‘education’ lest we discover that we are being robbed of our ability to think independently by being led to believe that we are thinking independently.”
“Of necessity, our imagination must embrace the dark reality of ‘what is’ as a precursor to ‘what could be.’ For then and only then will we see in the darkness of today the certain light of tomorrow.”
“Of necessity, theirs must often be an interior silence, surrounded as they were for much of the time by noise and restlessness. To make possible true interior silence she told her Sister they would practice”
Source: Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography
“Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.”
“Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.”
“Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
“Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.”
“Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.”
“Of no distemper, of no blast he died,
But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long:
Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner.
Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years;
Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more;
Till like a clock worn out with eating time,
The wheels of weary life at last stood still.”