Logo
I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Gr

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation. – Joseph Addison, Spectator, No.464

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

A vast meaning is unfolded in each line, with such power that a sentence only a line long would suffice for a whole life’s training. – Rufinus (translated from Latin), about The Sentences of Sextus

Category:
Quotations

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound. – Christian Nestell Bovee, “Thought,” Institutions and Summaries of Thought, 1862

Category:
Quotations

In quoting others we cite ourselves. – Julio Cortázar (1914–1984), Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Category:
Quotations

And in spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. – George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Daniel Deronda (Book II, Meeting Streams), 1876

Category:
Quotations

Random Quotes

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. – Eugenio Montale

Category:
Poetry

In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it. – Fergie

Category:
diet

Music can change the world because it can change people. – Bono

Category:
Change

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. – Bible

Category:
Prayer