Leathern Quotes

#1. Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife,
In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains
A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain
New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale

John Phillips

#2. In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings.

John Gay

#4. Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

Plato

#5. Linnaeus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me.

Brendan Fraser

#7. For her, he was . . . the one.

J.R. Ward

#8. Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

George Soros

#9. Before you "re-think" your faith, it may be wise to examine the critics of the Bible. In the end your faith will be even stronger.

Billy Graham

#10. He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

Charles Kingsley

#11. Engineers created the wealth. And during the 1990s Silicon Valley had created a fantastic amount of new wealth.

Michael Lewis

#12. When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

Oscar Wilde