Draws Quotes - Page 28

• Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath,
  At most seven inches from the jaws of death.

  Juvenal

  Death, Seven, Inches

  Juvenal (1836). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis,”, p.140

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• By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.

  George Herbert

  Past, Thread, Needles

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.331

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• Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another.
  [Disgraces are like cherries, one draws another.]

  George Herbert

  Cherries, Disgrace

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• Princes that would their people should do well
  Must at themselves begin, as at the head;
  For men, by their example, pattern out
  Their limitations, and regard of laws:
  A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Law, People

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• As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Flower, Men, Smell

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.377

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• It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sympathy, Grief, Tears

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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• When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.

  John Lennon

  Peace, Angel, Mind

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• There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

  Edmund Burke

  Abuse, Protection, Reverence

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.178

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• Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

  Aeschylus

  Soul, Flow, Calm

  Aeschylus (1821). “The tragedies of Aeschylus”, p.167

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• Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.

  Philip James Bailey

  Fate, Soul, Rays

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.186

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• Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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• The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read book so bad but he drew some profit from it.

  Laurence Sterne

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.43

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• He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.

  Jeremy Collier

  Together, Would Be, Painting

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.74

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• Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite.

  Margaret Fuller

  Art, Gardening, Doe

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• The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Heart, Character, Long

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.134, UPNE

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• A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.

  Barbara Holland

  Spiritual, Eye, Sight

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• I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.

  Horace Walpole

  Men, Effort, Style

  Horace Walpole (1848). “Letters Addressed to the Countess of Ossory, from the Year 1769 to 1797: Now First Printed from Original Mss. Edited, with Notes, by R. Vernon Smith”, p.538

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• Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.

  Madame de Stael

  Real, Effort, Attention

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• He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the while an exceedingly poor creature; for riches are no proof whatever of moral worth, and their glitter often serves only to draw attention to the worthlessness of their possessor, as the glow-worm's light reveals the grub.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Light, Attention

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.341

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• I've got 's much feelin' as the next one, but when folks drives in their spiggits and wants to draw a bucketful o' compassion every day right straight along, there does come times when it seems as if the bar'l was getting low.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Compassion, The Next One, Doe

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1892). “Country By-Ways”

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• Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone,
  And still a new to-morrow does come on.
  We by to-morrow draw out all our store,
  Till the exhausted well can yield no more.

  Abraham Cowley

  Yield, Yesterday, Doe

  Abraham Cowley (1809). “The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse”, p.225

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• And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

  Mary Gardiner Brainard

  Distance, Dark, Looks

  "Not Knowing". The Congregationalist; set to music as a hymn by Philip Paul Bliss in the 1870s, as quoted in "Glimpses of Christian History Presents More Stories: Blessed Bliss" (2007) by Thomas Corts, March 1869.

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• Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes,
  Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose;
  Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance
  With timid eye, to read the distant glance;
  Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease,
  To name the nameless ever-new disease;
  Who with mock patience dire complaints endure,
  Which real pain and that alone can cure;
  How would ye bear in real pain to lie,
  Despised, neglected, left alone to die?
  How would ye bear to draw your latest breath,
  Where all that's wretched paves the way for death?

  George Crabbe

  Prayer, Pain, Real

  George Crabbe, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1857). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.15

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• The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.

  Freya Stark

  Past, Journey, History

  Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.32, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Fighting, Friendly, Way

  Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

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