Top 32 Owne Quotes
#2. It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender.
George Herbert
#3. So Orpheus did for his owne bride,
So I unto my selfe alone will sing,
The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.
Edmund Spenser
#4. But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
Edmund Spenser
#5. Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements.
George Herbert
#8. He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.
[He that would be well needs not go from his own house.]
George Herbert
#9. He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out.
George Herbert
#10. Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his owne executioner.
Thomas Browne
#12. Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land ... If he have nothing but his hands, he may ... by industrie quickly grow rich.
John Smith
#13. They set great store by their gardens ... Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention ... concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
Thomas More
#14. He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
George Herbert
#15. He [the householder] is the appointer of his owne circumstance, and his house is his castle.
Richard Mulcaster
#16. Justice pleaseth few in their owne house.
[Justice pleases few in their own house.]
George Herbert
#18. These are O Lord the humble desires of my most reasonable ambition and all I dare call happinesse on earth: wherein I set no rule or limit to thy hand or providence. Dispose of me according to the wisdome of thy pleasure. Thy will bee done, though in my owne undoing.
Thomas Browne
#19. Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.
George Herbert
#20. It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.
John Heywood
#21. Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter.
George Herbert
#22. Let me tell you something. A man ain't a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can't chop down because they're inside.
Toni Morrison
#23. Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.
Isabel Allende
#24. There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.
Homer
#25. True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II
#27. Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.
Steve Irwin
#28. Unfortunately, the current pace of progress is not nearly rapid enough, with many rich industrialised countries being slow to make the transition to cleaner and more efficient forms of economic growth.
Nicholas Stern
#29. Very close, I want to hear your voice; and then I'll lose myself in the maelstrom of your eyes, your lips and your hair - you know it very well, you my beguiling siren and you rob me, mercilessly, of my thinking.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#31. Cycling is an excruciating sport - a rider's power is only as great as his capacity to endure pain - and it is often remarked that the best cyclists experience their physical agonies as a relief from private torments. The bike gives suffering a purpose.
Philip Gourevitch
#32. Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even single-mindedly, motivated to feel happy.
Daniel Gilbert
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