Opes Quotes

#1. Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.

John Milton

#2. Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.
[Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam
Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]

Ovid

#3. How sweet to move at summer's eve
By Clyde's meandering stream,
When Sol in joy is seen to leave
The earth with crimson beam;
When islands that wandered far
Above his sea couch lie,
And here and there some gem-like star
Re-opes its sparkling eye.

Andrew Park

#4. Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures,
That is the only wealth for ever yours.
[Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis;
Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.]

Martial

#5. O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho' Age wearies by the way, And hearts break in the furrow, We'll sow the golden grain Today
The Harvest comes tomorrow.

Gerald Massey

#6. From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

James Beattie

#7. The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

John Milton

#8. Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an increased likelihood of cancer, as well as skeletal changes that could prevent them from attaining their full adult height.

Jeffrey Kluger

#9. a conjurer will offer you alternatives to choose from but you always end up picking the one that he wants you to!

Ashwin Sanghi

#10. The most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens.

David Quammen

#11. Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

William Faulkner

#12. The grief doesn't go away, ... But you ... get used to it, you know? It's like carrying a heavy stone, one that's really too heavy for you: you learn to settle the weight properly, and then you get used to it, and then sometimes you can forget you're carrying it.

Rachel Neumeier

#13. Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

Virginia Woolf

#14. A-tone-ment-its a chance to fix the unfixable and to start all over again. It begins when you forgive yourself for all you've done wrong, and forgive others for all they've done to you. Your mistakes aren't mistakes anymore, they're just things that make you stronger.

Glenn Beck

#15. Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

John Locke

#16. Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.

Don Roff

#17. The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.

John T. Flynn

#18. A few years ago if yu said yu were Green
Yu were really seen as Red.

Benjamin Zephaniah

#19. Unlike baked beans, loaves of breads or Fuji apples, books once consumed, do not disappear.

John Sutherland