Fond Quotes - page 15

Pericles was the people's friend. [Footnote: The very poorest citizens had a chance to become President, but somehow they didn't. It may have been just a coincidence. ] He was so fond of the people that he paid them to go to the Assembly and vote, and they were so fond of him that they elected him year after year. (Will Cuppy)
I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage. View quote
Jane Austen
I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such. View quote
Jane Austen
Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken. View quote
Charles Lamb
When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone. View quote
Charles Lamb
When I consider how little of a rarity children are that every street and blind alley swarms with them that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them. View quote
Charles Lamb
I NEVER loved a dear Gazelle – Nor anything that cost me much: High prices profit those who sell, but why should I be fond of such? View quote
Lewis Carroll
Chorus: Let not thy love to man o'erleap the bounds Of reason, nor neglect thy wretched state: So my fond hope suggests thou shalt be free From these base chains, nor less in power than Jove. Prometheus: Not thus - it is not in the Fates that thus These things should end; crush'd with a thousand wrongs, A thousand woes, I shall escape these chains. Necessity is stronger far than art. Chorus: Who then is ruler of necessity? Prometheus: The triple Fates and unforgetting Furies. Chorus: Must Jove then yield to their superior power? Prometheus: He no way shall escape his destined fate. Chorus: What, but eternal empire, is his fate? Prometheus: Thou mayst not know this now: forbear to inquire. Chorus: Is it of moment what thou keep'st thus close? Prometheus: No more of this discourse; it is not time Now to disclose that which requires the seal Of strictest secresy; by guarding which I shall escape the misery of these chains. View quote
Aeschylus
I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself. View quote
Wole Soyinka
Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
I have had my different husbands, my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside me there is the feeling that I belong to show business. (Ingrid Bergman)
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye. View quote
John W. Campbell
When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. View quote
Salman Rushdie
I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be. View quote
Tamora Pierce
I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example - when the science fiction book changes one thing but leaves the rest of science intact and explores the consequences of that. That's actually very valuable. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Most of the men don't like officers up from the ranks, but they're kind of fond of Sharpe. He scares them. They want to be like him.' 'I can't see that scaring men is a virtue in an officer. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
I was very fond of Princess Diana. She used to have me over to lunch to ask my advice. I'd give her good advice, and she'd say: 'I entirely agree. Paul, you're so right.' Then she'd go and do the opposite. View quote
Paul Johnson
To be fond of learning is near to wisdom to practice with vigor is near to benevolence and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things. View quote
Confucius
I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances. View quote
Confucius
I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women. View quote
Confucius
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. (Confucius)
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible. View quote
Wangari Maathai
I do not say that this is true in every case, but I do say that if priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrificed to God. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always so happened that God wanted what his agents liked. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs. View quote
Zhuangzi