“ Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news hath but a losing office, and his tongue sounds ever after as a sullen bell, rememb'red tolling a departing friend. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I thank you for your voices, thank you! Your most sweet voices! Now you have left your voices, I have no further with you. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 732
“ Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart! ”
- Eliza Cook- Copy
- 4K
“ Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 542
“ America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America. ”
- Jimmy Carter- Copy
- 866
“ I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd, — "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — Solitude is sweet. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 1.7K
“ We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
- 4K
“ Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
- 1.4K
“ It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. ”
- William Dean Howells- Copy
- 113
“ Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds,That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. ”
- Mark Russell- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift… The hangover comes the day after. ”
- Joyce Brothers- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 405
“ Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 2.6K
“ And diff'ring judgments serve but to declareThat truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 1K
“ Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain. ”
- H. L. Phillips- Copy
- 2.5K
“ My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery — always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 1.9K
“ A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small. ”
- Eva K. Logue- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. ”
- John Lahr- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 1.9K
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