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This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in: But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own, It is the worst world that ever was known. - Unattributed Author, A Collection of Epigrams Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong. - Unattributed Author, Fortnightly Review--Armageddon--And After (p. 36) The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. - Joseph Addison, Cato (act V, sc. 1) This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun. - John Armstrong, Art of Preserving Health (bk. II, l. 453) Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. - Matthew Arnold, Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse Trust not the world, for it never payeth that it promiseth. - Saint Aurelius Augustine (Augustine of Hippo) The verdict of the world is conclusive. [Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.] - Saint Aurelius Augustine (Augustine of Hippo), Contra Epist. Parmen. (III, 24) This world's a bubble. - ascribed to Francis Bacon, by Thomas Farnaby Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. The Centre) The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. - James Baldwin For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city. - Honore de Balzac God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven. [Fr., Dieu est le poete, les hommes ne sont que les acteurs. Ces grandes pieces qui se jouent sur la terre ont ete composees dans le ciel.] - Honore de Balzac, Socrate Chretien Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. . . . . But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray. - Thomas Haynes Bayly (Bayley), Fly away, pretty Moth Let the world slide. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Wit Without Money (act V, sc. 2) It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for. - Henry Ward Beecher The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square. - Bishop George Berkeley, as quoted in Punch, sources also attribute to Sydney Smith But they will maintain the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft. - Bible, Ecclesiasticus (ch. XXXVIII, v. 34) Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a little thing. - Bible, Isaiah (ch. XL, v. 15) But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall be ashamed nor confounded world without end. - Bible, Isaiah (ch. XLV, v. 17) After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. - Bible, Revelations (ch. VII, v. 9-10) There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart. - Lady Marguerite Blessington, Countess of Blessington The pomps and vanity of this wicked world. - Book of Common Prayer, Catechism Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world. - Book of Common Prayer, Public Baptism of Infants He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its customs and its businesses, Is no concern at all of his, And says--what says he?--Caw. - Vincent Bourne, The Jackdaw, (Cowper's translation) God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern. - Christian Nestell Bovee Displaying page 1 of 7 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7
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