Best Palms Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.”

Views Scene Theatre Shade Palms Woody Cedars

Book:The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan

Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan

“No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.”

Silence Architecture Tall Fabric Palms Hammers Mystic Majestic Axes Sprung

Book:The Life of Reginald Heber, D.D. Lord Bishop of Calcutta: With Selections from His Correspondence, Unpublished Poems, and Private Papers : Together with a Journal of His Tour in Norway, Sweden, Russia, Hungary and Germany, and a History of the Cosacks ; in Two Volumes

Source: The Life of Reginald Heber, D.D. Lord Bishop of Calcutta: With Selections from His Correspondence, Unpublished Poems, and Private Papers : Together with a Journal of His Tour in Norway, Sweden, Russia, Hungary and Germany, and a History of the Cosacks ; in Two Volumes

“Those who possess that treasure which no thief can take away, Which, though on suppliants freely spent, increaseth day by day, The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth-- To them e'en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.”

Should Earth Happiness Source Kings Higher Treasure Yield Thieves Inward Palms

Author:Bhartrhari

“The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won. Take the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero.”

“Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.”

Grows Tree Wind Roots Palms Palm Trees Zion

Book:Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition

Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition

“How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.”

Men Doe Winning Tree Flow Labour Shade Crowns Toil Palms Herbs Oaks Repose Garlands Upbraid

Author:Andrew Marvell

“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.”