Known Quotes - page 5

For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. (William Cowper)
He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face. View quote
Anthony Trollope
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. View quote
Joseph Roux
Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years but we don't choose to have it known. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species. View quote
António Lobo Antunes
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. View quote
Charles Lamb
Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. (William Butler Yeats)
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known. View quote
William Butler Yeats
I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody - you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now. View quote
Jim Carrey
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. View quote
Haile Selassie
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more. View quote
William Blake
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. View quote
William Blake
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people. View quote
Rosa Parks
The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck. View quote
Thomas More
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities . . . are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
Strange when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history for in legend as having died of laughter. View quote
Max Beerbohm
I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris. (Paris Hilton)
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have found power in the mysteries of thought,exaltation in the changing of the Muses;I have been versed in the reasonings of men;but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. View quote
Euripides
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. View quote
Lord Byron
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this. View quote
Homer