Amelia Edwards Quotes

#1. It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

Amelia B. Edwards

#2. Well, actually, plucking my eyebrows is more of a hobby than a grooming tip.

Courteney Cox

#3. A cup of tea at the ready and a jug of water will suffice just fine.

S.A. Tawks

#4. Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#5. We find something of the favour sought in a graceful refusal.

Publilius Syrus

#6. Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.

Amelia B. Edwards

#7. In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God.

Vincent De Paul

#8. It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.

Amelia B. Edwards

#9. On 'Glee,' we often tackle the tough topics that young people face - in fact, my recurring character, Wade 'Unique' Adams, is a transgender teenager who finds herself navigating a lot of the same problems many young people face around the globe.

Alex Newell

#10. Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

Amelia B. Edwards

#11. Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

Charles Williams

#12. The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

Amelia B. Edwards

#13. The value-added Board brings the high-performance result, "deep common sense," balance, improved strategic thinking, creativity, wisdom and more.

Pearl Zhu

#14. You have the ability to choose your thoughts,
to control your emotions,
and to determine your actions.
Thus you decide your fate.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

Amelia B. Edwards

#16. Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

Amelia B. Edwards

#17. Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.

Steven Pinker

#18. Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and leads him by the hand as a father leads an infant son.

Chief Seattle

#19. Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit ...

Amelia B. Edwards

#20. I love Mary very much. I love her family very much. This is just an issue in which we disagree.

Liz Cheney

#21. Between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.

Amelia B. Edwards

#22. Did you ever feel a creeping,
That awoke you from your sleeping,
That made your pulses flutter and bristled all your hair;
While a horrid stealthy crawling
Prevented you from calling,
And something seemed to tell you that a ghost was coming there?

Amelia B. Edwards