Arabian Tales Quotes

#1. The story of Eve and the serpent, and of Noah and his ark, drops to a level with the Arabian Tales, without the merit of being entertaining, and the account of men living to eight and nine hundred years becomes as fabulous as the immortality of the giants of the Mythology.

Thomas Paine

#2. I took a book - some Arabian tales; I sat down and endeavoured to read. I could make no sense of the subject; my own thoughts swam always between me and the page I had usually found fascinating.

Charlotte Bronte

#3. We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#4. In leaving behind the kind of shell common to all undergraduates, indeed to most young men, they had, in one sense, taken more definite shape by each establishing conspicuously his own individual identity, thereby automatically drawing farther apart from each other.

Anthony Powell

#5. He that has done nothing has known nothing.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. I have an erratic drummer for anybody who's just listening to this, he can keep time, but just in spurts.

Demetri Martin

#7. The fire is not discriminating. It burns anything in its path for whatever reason.

John Wayne

#8. Unless some other factor is operative, in large, weak and underpopulated states, the luxury of ostentation prevails over that of comfort; but in countries which are more populous than extensive, the luxury of comfort always diminishes ostentation.

Cesare Beccaria

#9. Love can do much, but duty more.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe