Quotes Tagged With :classics

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see....

We, men, who work hard to get somewhere in life, to make something of ourselves in life, to mean something....

It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature.....

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?....

nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose

A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay. He who follows Christ for his bag....

Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody....

Might it have been nothing but life itself? Life; this limitless complex sea, filled with assorted flotsam,....