Expatiate Quotes

#1. he would expatiate with great vehemence on the misery of idle and lazy habits; and would enforce upon them the necessity of an active life, by sending them supperless to bed. On

Charles Dickens

#2. Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

Joseph Addison

#3. Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

Alexander Pope

#4. Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

Samuel Johnson

#5. There is, probably, not a famous Picture or Statue in all Italy, but could be easily buried under a mountain of printed paper devoted to dissertations on it. I do not, therefore, though an earnest admirer of Painting and Sculpture, expatiate at any length on famous Pictures and Statues.

Charles Dickens

#6. In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.

Robert E.Lee

#7. A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind ...

Joshua Reynolds

#8. Whatsoever the Lord Jesus commands you, do it, irrespective of consequences. Many who greatly delight to expatiate on the "Whosoever" of John 3:16, are not so much concerned about the "Whatsoever" of John 2:5, "Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it.

Alexander Marshall

#9. ...living in Rome is either a one or a two, or a nine or ten. Not much in between. And some days it's both.

Judith Works

#10. Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

Bertrand Russell

#11. Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense
what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

Dag Hammarskjold

#12. You think she's hot, don't you?" she asked. I shrugged. "Of course." Because Kayla is hot. Fit and tiny with creamy

Karina Halle

#13. I like vodka tonics and gin & tonics. I also like gimlets. I like things that have sweetness with a bit of a kick.

Lea Salonga

#14. You audition, and then you go and do what's called a test, your network test. So you have to go in front of the network and do it, and the network has to sign off on you.

Sean Maher