Quotes of Fancy - somelinesforyou

“ Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. ”

- Unknown

“ You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?". ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane. ”

- Ludwig Feuerbach

“ Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference. ”

- Joel Barker

“ Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. ”

- Carl Jung

“ To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen. ”

- Robert L Schwartz

“ I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ”

- Bill Watterson

“ Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. ”

- Bible

“ The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future. ”

- Joel A. Barker

“ What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust. ”

- Salvador Dali

“ My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Idleness induces caprice. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus. ”

- James Gibbons

“ He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. ”

- Thomas Merton

“ Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind. ”

- Gilbert Seldes

“ Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ The more you can dream, the more you can do. ”

- Michael Korda

“ We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ”

- Aesop

“ He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him. ”

- George Ade

“ Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. ”

- Lao tzu

“ Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. ”

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“ We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. ”

- Judy Garland
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