lord quotes

• Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. (Stephen Leacock) [lord/horse]
• We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor. (Stephen Leacock) [think/lord/willpower/willpower]
• Some have meat, and cannot eat, And some cannot eat that want it; But we have meat, and we can eat - And let the Lord be thanked. (Robert Burns) [lord]
• When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty. (William Blake) [sun/company/lord/god]
• The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. (Samuel Butler) [lord]
• Journalism consists largely in saying Lord James is dead to people who never knew Lord James was alive. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [lord/people/lord]
• The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet. (Eldridge Cleaver) [paper/lord/land]
• Lord, keep my memory green. (Charles Dickens) [lord/memory]
• The question is this -- Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories. (Benjamin Disraeli) [question/lord]
• I am lord of myself, accountable to none. (Benjamin Franklin) [lord]
• Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away. (George Herbert) [lord/care/parents/sorrow]
• Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe. ( Horace) [lord/death]
• Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. (Samuel Johnson) [lord/life/water/take]
• The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most. (Ann Landers) [lord/think]
• Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. (Abraham Lincoln) [people/lord]
• The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them. (Abraham Lincoln) [lord/people]
• Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. (Martin Luther) [lord/books]
• The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. (Martin Luther) [lord/people]
• So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else. (Martin Luther) [lord/god]
• Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs. (Ralph Nader) [lord/master]
• Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you. (Roy Rogers) [lord/take]
• I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. (George Sand) [lord/more]
• Lord, what fools these mortals be. (William Shakespeare) [lord]
• Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it. (William Shakespeare) [lord/speak/greatness/more]
• Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be. (William Shakespeare) [lord]
• Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! (William Shakespeare) [lord/lord/men]
• A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment? (Jonathan Swift) [lord/delicacy]
• Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. (Henry David Thoreau) [lord/state]
• O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen. (Mark Twain) [lord/god/pain/waste]
• How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in? (Oscar Wilde) [lord]
• Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his. (Oscar Wilde) [lord/women]

Calendar

Sun Mon Tue Wen Thu Fri Sat Apr 25 [65] 26 [51] 27 [71] 28 Apr 29 [10] 30 [58] 1 [2] 2 [50] 3 [73] 4 [75] 5 [35] May 6 [75] 7 [104] 8 [50] 9 10 [106] 11 [79] 12 [50] May 13 [50] 14 [8] 15 [75] 16 [114] 17 [50] 18 [112] 19 May 20 [79] 21 [76] 22 [59] 23 [43] 24 [61] 25 [71] 26 [50] May

The Best Authors

Search

Pop by Searches

Best Quote

Worst Quote