O Quotes
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“Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.”
“Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.”
“Of all types of birds, birds of prey have always fascinated people.”
“Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.”
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
“Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.”
Source: Curiosities of literature
“Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.”
“Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.”
Source: The Complete Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott: Chronicles of the Canongate, The Keepsake Stories, The Highland Widow, The Tapestried Chamber, Halidon Hill, Auchindrane and many more: From the Great Scottish Writer, Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Anne of Geierstein, The Betrothed and The Talisman
“Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest”
“Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes
“Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.”
“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
“Of all wines, Champagne is the one that is the anytime drink, the panacea for all ills, the best bottle for any occasion and absolutely the only solution when there is something to celebrate.”
“Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.”
Source: Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)
“Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.”
“Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power.”
“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.”
“Of alle the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, Swiche as men callen daysies in our toun. . . . . Til that myn herte dye. . . . . That wel by reson men hit calle may The 'dayesye' or elles the 'ye of day,' The emperice and flour of floures alle. I pray to god that faire mot she falle, And alle that loven floures, for hir sake!”
“Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure.”
Source: Villette
“Of an inanimate being, like a table, we say “What is it?” And we answer Dopwen yewe. Table it is. But of apple, we must say, “Who is that being?” And reply Mshimin yawe. Apple that being is.
Yawe— the animate to be. I am, you are, s/he is. To speak of those possessed with life and spirit we must say yawe. By what linguistic confluence do Yahweh of the Old Testament and yawe of the New World both fall from the mouths of the reverent Isn’t this just what it means, to be, to have the breath of life within, to be the offspring of creation The language reminds us, in every sentence, of our kinship with all of the animate world.”
Source: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“Of another lie "You said that you will be with me...", "Everything what I want I will get..", but???
After all it was a lie, you even "You said that this guy won't take you, but...”
“Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.”
Source: Composing a Life
“Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.”
“Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others.”
Source: The Red House Mystery
“of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.”
“Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .”
Source: The Hills Grow Smaller: Poems
“Of bliss on bliss, while I to Hell am thrust,
Where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,
Among our other torments not the least,
Still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines.”
Source: Paradise lost
“Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.”
Source: The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life
“Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.”
Source: Table-talk
“Of Both Appreciation And Understanding, Appreciation Seems More Natural, But Understanding Gives Better Rewards And Sustains A Relationship”.”
“Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names.”
Source: The poetical works of John Milton: with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton
“Of candy canes and pine cones, and epic and awesome.”
Source: Wolfsong
“Of capital importance is to have a good diet and exercise a lot.”
“Of Captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced his characteristic bravery and judgment; and, since the close of the action, has given me the most able and essential assistance.”
Source: A review of a pamphlet purporting to be Documents in relation to the differences which subsisted between the late Commodore Oliver H. Perry, and Captain Jesse D. Elliott
“Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.”
“Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.”
Source: The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby
“Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.”
Source: The Conduct of Life
“Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.”
“Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable”
Source: The letters of Evelyn Waugh
“Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.”
“Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.”
“Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.”
“Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of the highest degree of accuracy. One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unhappy if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up.”
Source: Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage