“ I bought a seven dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring. ”
- Mitch Hedberg- Copy
- 2.2K
“ It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
- 878
“ Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Thought and action are the jailers of Fate — they imprison, being base; they are also the angels of Freedom — they liberate being noble. ”
- James Allen- Copy
- 3K
“ For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
- 772
“ The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it. ”
- Axel Munthe- Copy
- 2K
“ Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside! ”
- Morris West- Copy
- 25
“ If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted. ”
- Francis Quarles- Copy
- 901
“ I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrified himself. ”
- Boris Pasternak- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers! ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 113
“ The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 433
“ Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it. ”
- Gail Hamilton- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 804
“ Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. ”
- John Berger- Copy
- 1.4K
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