Quotes of Rough - somelinesforyou

“ How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns. ”

- John Milton

“ Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ The first man is of the earth, earthy. ”

- Bible

“ It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring. ”

- Lemony Snicket

“ The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good! ”

- Elizabeth Wordsworth

“ Wit will shineThrough the harsh cadence of a rugged line. ”

- John Dryden

“ Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. - Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. ”

- John Dryden

“ Let us love temperately, things violent last not. ”

- Philip Massinger

“ We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude. ”

- Douglas Coupland

“ If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If rough be love with you, be rough with love. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand! ”

- Walter Scott

“ Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. ”

- David Letterman

“ Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. ”

- Epictetus

“ A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype. ”

- Jean Michel Jarre

“ An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. ”

- Nicolas Chamfort

“ We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. ”

- George Orwell

“ There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity. ”

- John Brown

“ Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. ”

- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

“ People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. ”

- George Orwell

“ Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. ”

- Henri F. Amiel

“ There is a divinity which shapes our ends, rough-hew them as we might. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. ”

- Simone Weil

“ Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. ”

- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

“ As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Caricature is rough truth. ”

- George Meredith
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