English Quotes

Nimbus is doing a great service with these excellently produced transformations of piano roll recordings.

They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl.

I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.

Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.

There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.