Akenside Quotes

#1. Good God, Clarence! You look like a bereaved tapeworm.

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. Nobody in the world could have told me I wasn't gonna be a rapper. So, yeah, I always knew I was gonna be one.

Lil' Wayne

#3. Sometimes we're more terrified of the good things in life than we are of the bad. We feel we don't deserve them, or that they aren't real, that they'll disappear quickly and easily and we'll be left in the ruins.

Kandi Steiner

#4. Nor ever yet the melting rainbow's vernal-tinctur'd hues to me have shone so pleasing, as when first the hand of science pointed out the path in which the sun-beams gleaming from the west fall on the watery cloud.

Mark Akenside

#5. Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.

Mark Akenside

#6. If I had known I would influence so many guitarists, I would have practiced more.

Ace Frehley

#7. You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Rabindranath Tagore

#8. So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria.

Helena Christensen

#9. SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray
From the great source of mental Day,
Free, generous, and refin'd!
Descend with all thy treasures fraught,
Illumine each bewilder'd thought,
And bless my labour'g mind.

Mark Akenside

#10. This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

Mark Akenside

#11. Now that he was dead, Paul could look at him. The cop looked like a big doll that has been badly treated by a gang of nasty children.

Stephen King

#12. Such and so various are the tastes of men.

Mark Akenside

#13. Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.

Mark Akenside

#14. Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

Mark Akenside

#15. IT IS A MISTAKE to suppose that all men, or at least all Englishmen, want to be free. On the contrary, if freedom entails responsibility, many of them want none of it. They would happily exchange their liberty for a modest (if illusory) security.

Theodore Dalrymple

#16. Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty.

Mark Akenside

#17. The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

Mark Akenside