Top 26 John Aubrey Quotes
#1. How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!
John Aubrey
#4. Nobody dressed like that in Aubrey, not even in the nicer parts.
John M. Cusick
#5. He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.
John Aubrey
#6. Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#7. This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.
John Aubrey
#8. He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.
John Aubrey
#9. I'm always talking about loving yourself and expressing yourself and learning how to love yourself. I'm still the same.
RuPaul
#10. I looked down at the dying face of Silena Beauregard.
Rick Riordan
#11. Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him.
John Aubrey
#12. God was not in the details for Jefferson; he was in the sky and stars.
Joseph J. Ellis
#13. Oscar was raised to believe that if he stayed in his room reading about made up worlds it meant he didn't appreciate the life he had, the possessions his parents had worked hard for, like the TV and the video and the newly turfed back garden.
Benjamin Wood
#14. I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained.
John Aubrey
#15. Writing is, among things, the place where we can help ourselves cope with the dark parts of our living
John Aubrey
#16. N MY early boyhood I was enraptured by the great fairytale illustrators of the period: Arthur Rackham, Edmond Dulac, Kay Nielsen. As a schoolboy, I was to discover Aubrey Beardsley, and I was extremely fond of an edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with most imaginative drawings by Heath Robinson,
John Gielgud
#17. There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.
John Aubrey
#18. I have been in danger of being drowned twice.
John Aubrey
#20. Fasting is a weapon in a Christian's spiritual arsenal and you need to know when to use it
Osunsakin Adewale
#21. I don't believe I want to retire, because I just enjoy and love my work so much.
Vincent Lo
#22. The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.
John Aubrey
#23. As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly 'I have seen the glories of the world.
John Aubrey
#24. The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
John Aubrey
#25. If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.
John Podesta
#26. If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.
John Aubrey
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