Logo
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a perio

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge. – Edward Bulwer Lytton

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Quotations
category

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author? – Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Intellectual Life, 1873

Category:
Quotations

Good quotations, like good thoughts, are true wealth. – Annie E. Lancaster, quoted in Day’s Collacon: An Encyclopædia of Pros

Category:
Quotations

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. – Marlene Dietrich

Category:
Quotations

If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Quotations

Random Quotes

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. – Erich Fromm

Category:
Art

History is the daughter of time. – Lucien Febvre, The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century

Category:
History

Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. – Fijian Proverb

Category:
Tooth Fairy

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. – James Madison

Category:
War