“ Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble. ”
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it". ”
- Katherine Dunham- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing. ”
- Neil Kinnock- Copy
- 1.2K
“ My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain. ”
- Cervantes- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows. ”
- Michelangelo Buonarroti- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone. ”
- Keanu Reeves- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead. ”
- Anna Cummins- Copy
- 1.4K
“ In the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. ”
- Elizabeth I- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The stone that the builder refused to lay should always be the head corners stone. You're a builder baby; here I am a stone. ”
- Bob Marley- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil. ”
- Zaki Yamani- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. ”
- Albert Schweitzer- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill. ”
- Edmund Morrison- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears. ”
- Lope de Vega- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. ”
- John Burroughs- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 3K
“ Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them… ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.1K
“ If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 3K
“ The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ”
- Anonymous- Copy
- 1.6K
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