COLLECTION OF
QUOTATIONS
ON THE INTERNET
|
|
THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS ON THE INTERNET |
| Home | Biographical Index | Reading List | Search | Site Notes | Varying Hare Books | | |||
| GIGA Quotes | Quotes by Author | Authors by Date | | |||
We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are. - Richard Henry Stoddard, Arcadian Idyl (l. 30) I was born to other things. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (CXX) That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. - James Thomson (1) The thirst to know and understand, A large and liberal discontent; These are the goods in life's rich hand, The things that are more excellent. - Sir William Watson (2), Things That Are More Excellent (st. 8) And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Discontent Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), Woman of No Importance (act II) Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night VII, l. 44) Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
|
|
