O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“O ye of little faith. Why would you run? Do you still believe there's any incarnation of you I wouldn't want? Wouldn't go after determined to share a life with, to the end of space and time itself?”
Source: Kingdom of Shadow and Light
“O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.”
Source: The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer
“O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your own ease.”
“O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.”
“O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.”
Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I
“O ye who Believe! Make not unlawful the good things which GOD hath made lawful for you, but commit no excess: For GOD loveth not those given to excess.”
“O ye who believe! Persevere in patience and constancy: vie in such perseverance; strengthen each other; and fear GOD; that ye may prosper.”
“O ye who believe! seek help with patient perseverance and prayer: for GOD is with those who patiently persevere.”
“O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.”
“O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.”
“O yellow eye,
let me be sick with your heat,
let me be feverish and frowning.”
“O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to go.”
Source: Riddley Walker
“O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth from other people comes so sweet to us when it comes, because, we always carry with us the knowledge of the cold loneliness of death?”
“O Yes, I must sing, and so must you sing also. For all music is singing, and in music there is praise of life.”
“O you beast!
I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron,
That you shall think the devil is come from hell.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
“O you
can’t tell someone just how lonely he is”
Source: Crabwise to the Hounds
“O, you happy free women, contrast your New Year's day with that of the poor bond-woman! With you it is a pleasant season, and the light of the day is blessed.”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
“O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?”
Source: The divine comedy
“O, you the goldfish of
the swamp of my blood.
Let your drunkenness be pretty.
You are drinking me.”
“O you, the tender moon, the eternal enchanter,
the divine alchemist of the restless mind;
You bathe the sky with a sea of milk,
opening doors to a land of light
quieting chaos with deep peace.”
“O you virtuous owle,
The wise Minerva's only fowle.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney ...
“O You Who are hidden, body, soul and divinity, Under the fragile form of bread, You are my life from Whom springs an abundance of graces; And, for me, You surpass the delights of Heaven.”
“O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that we will not fall through weariness during our pilgrimage in this life, but will be fortified by You, celestial nourishment”
“O you who are my soul and my soul's death,
From now on look at no one else, unless
It's with God's unalloyed kindheartedness;
Look at how wrong you were to think of you,
Your self, so that this "you" was all you knew!
So that for all your shrewdness you became
Mad in yourself, your life, and in your name!”
Source: Layla and Majnun
“O you who believe, fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you and let them find firmness in you. And know that Allah is with those who keep their duty.”
“O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.”
“O you who have attained to faith! If you remain conscious of God. He will endow you with a standard by which to discern the true from the false, and will efface your bad deeds, and will forgive you your sins: for God is limitless in His great bounty.”
“O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end!”
“O you who reproach me, regarding my love, excuse me.
From me to you if you do justice, you would not reproach me.
My state (of love) has been expressed to you, (now) my secret is no longer concealed.”
“O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose its beauty, you sold the most precious item for the cheapest price, as if you neither knew the value of the goods nor the meanness of the prize. Wait until you come on the Day of Mutual Loss and Gain and you will discover the injustice of this contract.”
“O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
“O you youths, Western youths,
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
Pioneers! O pioneers!”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again upon your own shores; Tempt not the deep, lest unawares, In losing me, you yourselves might be lost. The sea I sail has never yet been passed; Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo, And Muses nine point out to me the Bears. You other few who have neck uplifted Betimes to the bread of angels upon Which one lives and does not grow sated, Well may you launch your vessel Upon the deep sea.”
“O you, who spends his lifetime disobeying his Lord, no one amongst your enemies is wicked to you more than you are to yourself”
“O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us!" A second time, eh, what imprudence! Suppose, dear sir, someone actually took our word for it? It would have to be fulfilled. Brr...! the water is so cold! But let's reassure ourselves. It's too late now, it will always be too late. Fortunately!”
Source: The fall
“O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.”
“O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.”
Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias
“O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire.”
Source: Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas
“O youth! youth! you have no concerns, you possess, as it were, all the treasures of the universe, even grief is a comfort to you, even sadness suits your looks, you are self-assured and bold, you say: 'Look, I'm the only one alive!' while the very days of your life run away and vanish without a trace and without number and everything in you disappears like wax, like snow in the hear of the sun... And perhaps the entire et of your charm consists not in the possibility of doing everything, but in the possibility of thinking perhaps it consists precisely in the fact that you want only to scatter on the wind energies that you wouldn't know how to use for anything else, perhaps it consists in the fact that each one of us seriously regards himself as a spendthrift and seriously considers that he has the right to say: 'Oh, the things I could have done if only I hadn't wasted my time!”
Source: First love
“O youth! youth! you have no concerns, you possess, as it were, all the treasures of the universe, even grief is a comfort to you, even sadness suits your looks, you are self-assured and bold, you say: 'Look, I'm the only one alive!' while the very days of your life run away and vanish without a trace and without number and everything in you disappears like wax, like snow in the heat of the sun... And perhaps the entire secret of your charm consists not in the possibility of doing everything, but in the possibility of thinking you can do everything, perhaps it consists precisely in the fact that you want only to scatter on the wind energies that you wouldn't know how to use for anything else, perhaps it consists in the fact that each one of us seriously regards himself as a spendthrift and seriously considers that he has the right to say: 'Oh, the things I could have done if only I hadn't wasted my time!”
Source: First love
“O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho' Age wearies by the way, And hearts break in the furrow, We'll sow the golden grain Today-- The Harvest comes tomorrow.”
Source: Poems
“O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.”
“O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.”
“O zaman anılarımızdan vaz mı geçmeliyiz?" diye söze girdi Genç Prens, çiçeğin ve arkadaşının anısı onun için çok değerli olduğundan böyle bir soru sormuş olmalıydı.
"Hayır, tüm iyi anılarını ve mutluluk veren tecrübelerini, kendini yalnız hissettiğin, zorluk çektiğin anlarda sana teselli verebilmeleri için her zaman yanında taşıyabilirsin. Kaçınman gereken, sana güvence sunan geçmişe takılı kalmaktır; aksi takdirde oraya mahkûm kalabilir ve yaşadığın anın sana sunacağı tecrübeleri reddedebilirsin. Geçmiş güven verir; çünkü artık bitmiş, ölmüştür. Bazıları hayatın acı ve mutluluk dolu sınırsız olasılığını içeren öngörülemezliği yerine, ölümün güven veren sessizliğini tercih eder."
Daha sonra ekledim:
Anıların şimdiki anın mutluluğuna zarar verebilecekleri başka bir durum da geçmişte hissettiklerinin aynısını hissetmeye çabalamandır. Boş yere verilen bir uğraştır bu. Bir nehirden akan suyun asla aynı olmaması gibi, hayattaki durumlar da hiçbir zaman birbirinin tıpatıp aynısı olmaz. Gel gör ki geçmişteki tecrübelerin aynısını yaşamak için kendilerini onlara mahkûm etmiş o kadar fazla insan var ki... Zihinlerini hapsettikleri eski hayatları sebebiyle, belki de daha mutlu olacakları yeni hayatı yaşamak ve keyif almaktan alıkoyarlar kendilerini. Bir kez orada yemek bulduğu için, biraz daha ileride yeni bir şeyler aramak yerine, sürekli aynı yere dönerek sonunda açlıktan ölen bir hayvana benzer bu insanlar.”
Source: El regreso del joven príncipe
“O Zeus! Why have you given us clear signs to tell
True gold from counterfeit; but when we need to know
Bad men from good, the flesh bears no revealing mark?”
Source: Medea
“O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.”
Source: Medea and Other Plays
“O zi bună e o zi în care știi să zâmbești... pentru că ești liber să simți și să trăiești așa cum îți dorești...”
“O zła Persefono,
Mogłażeś tak wielu łzam dać upłynać płono?”
Source: Treny
“O ódio firma meus pés ao chão e o amor leva minha cabeça às nuvens.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“O ódio mantém um homem vivo.”