Whiten'd Quotes

#1. Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

Alexander Pope

#2. Loving a person is wanting him/her (with variable degrees of desire down to friendship and even neighborhood); not needing him/her.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#3. To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

Augustus Hare

#4. Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your lofty, unrealistic ideals to deal with it.

Kim Harrison

#5. UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

#6. Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, high winds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blue heralds persistently proclaim from the orchard and the garden that the spring procession has begun to move.

Neltje Blanchan

#7. It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.

Harry Browne

#8. They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.

David Jones

#9. Death may whiten in sun or out of it.

Sylvia Plath

#10. Then the dry road dust rises to whiten
the fatigued elm leaves-
the nineteenth century, tired of children, is gone.
They're all gone into a world of light; the farm's my own.

Robert Lowell

#11. In the first hour of dawn, just as the hem of the sky began to whiten.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. Ultimately, I hoped the tiny-house guy was similar to me: a sane person without a big agenda, who simply wanted a way to make sense of the world, to create a new map with a big X in the middle labeled "Home," even if that meant shrinking his world down to the size of an area rug.

Dee Williams

#13. A life is black, whiten it as you will.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#14. Remember, you are not sent to whiten tombs, but to open them.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under;
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#16. There's the big advantage of backwardness. By the time the latest ideas reach Chicago, they're worn thin and easy to see through. You don't have to bother with them and it saves lots of trouble.

Saul Bellow

#17. Never throw away squeezed lemon, but keep them for the day by the sink. Then you can use them to remove fish, onion or garlic smells from your fingers. Or you can stick them on your elbows while you are reading a book, to soften and whiten your skin.

Jennifer Paterson

#18. Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#19. Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.

Steven Wright

#20. The mixture of Sarmatic and German blood had contributed to improve the features of the Alani, to whiten their swarthy complexions, and to tinge their hair with a yellowish cast, which is seldom found in the Tartar race.

Edward Gibbon