Noble Quotes - Page 15

Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.

If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.

Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight.