Best sound & bells Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes

“And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.”

Sound Mountain Musical Woods Wander Melancholy Bells Chasing Sabbath Dell

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade.”

World Mind Made Stills Sound Silence Ears Flesh Passing Passings Shade Bells Cheat Resigned Chimes

Book:The Dramatic Works and Poems: Now First Colledted : in 6 Volumes. Honoria and mammon [u.a.]

Source: The Dramatic Works and Poems: Now First Colledted : in 6 Volumes. Honoria and mammon [u.a.]

“I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.”

Ifs Way Want Turns Sound Color Red Add Bells

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the ordinary man a bell rings only when one beside it sounds, and the vibration lasts only a moment. In the genius, when a bell sounds it vibrates so strongly that it sets in action the whole series, and remains in action throughout life. The latter kind of movement often gives rise to extraordinary conditions and absurd impulses, that may last for weeks together and that form the basis of the supposed kinship of genius with insanity.”

“Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.”

Joy Found Names Sound Profound Bounds Companion Bells Harmonious

Book:Schiller's Song of the Bell

Source: Schiller's Song of the Bell

“It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound.”

Men Want Seems Faces Sound Women Flower Singing Tunes Bells Interfere

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.”

Ifs Enough Truth Spirit Sound Air Produce Shapes Harmony Graves Bells Definite

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.”

World Courses Sound Greater Judgment Direct Guides Bells

Book:Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

“Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps,--but reproduce the genius of that they speak of; as the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely, whilst the church chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.”

Thinking Men Use Remember Speak Sound Church Memories Steps Serious Genius Approach Argument Criticism Horse Lays Distance Charm Bells Disputes Precision Talkers Chimes

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Lord, let me make this rule To think of life as school, And try my best To stand each test, And do my work, And nothing shirk. Should someone else outshine This dullard head of mine, Should I be sad? I will be glad. To do my best Is Thy behest. Some day the bell will sound, Some day my heart will bound, As with a shout That school is out And lessons done, I homeward run.”

Thinking Should Trying Heart Done Running School Sound Lord Mines My Heart Lessons Tests Let Me Bounds Glad Bells Should I Shirk

Author:Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift up their voice like a trumpet. A sleeping sentinel may be the loss of the city.”

Should Wells May Sound Voice Loss Sleep Cities Watches Stones Miles Lifts Clock Ministers Prophet Sinner Bells Preaching Alarms Trumpets Sentinels Pomegranates

Author:Joseph Hall

“Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension.”

Should May Action Night Evil Sound Fire Cry Highest Window Eternity Infinite Series Temptation Tension Muscles Melancholy Fearful Bells Alarms Braces Instantaneous

Author:Horace Mann

“I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.”

Humans Made Whole Light Sound Known Notes Boots Bells Festivals Joyous Merry Bishops Grim Harshness Highwaymen

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells.”

Matter Moments Sound History Rose Busy Confused Spheres Bells Busy Life Clamor

Author:Johan Huizinga

“If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.”

Ifs Made Sound Church Blood Madness Slavery Raised Rings Excellent Torture Sugar Bells Organs Adultery Hideous Homicide Church Bells

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!”

Men Heart Eye Night Sound Thousand Beats Fairs Bravery Brave Strikes Rising Bells Lamps Merry Brave Man Belgium Chivalry Heart Beat Hush Her Beauty Voluptuous Revelry

Book:Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

“For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.”

Faces Sound Mystery Mankind Baby Conversation Speech Meaningful Bells Towers Newborn

Book:Five years

Source: Five years

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