Isaac Watts Quotes

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

Isaac Watts

• May
• Age
• Fancy
• Humour
• Folly

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• A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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  • Man
  • Nothing

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Age
  • Courage
  • Bravery

• Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • May
  • Man
  • Same

• Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Money
  • Age
  • Fashion

• When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • You
  • Look
  • Fancy

• Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Age
  • Myself
  • Athlete

• My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• I didn't actually know what a vegetarian was until I was 13 years old. I know in this day and age it's hard to believe that, but I think because I grew up on a farm, I wasn't indulged in magazines, newspapers, Internet, television. And so, for some reason, I was never exposed to what a vegetarian was.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Age

• In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • May
  • White
  • Africa

• As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • May
  • Day

• It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

  

  Sallust
  • May
  • Nature
  • Law

• A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • May
  • Bad
  • Laws

• There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • People
  • Country
  • May

• Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Up
  • May
  • Value

• And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • May

• So today, let me say: Sisters and brothers of India - my confidence in what our nations can achieve together is rooted in the values we share. For we may have our different histories and speak different languages, but when we look at each other, we see a reflection of ourselves.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Different
  • May
  • Together

• In every unbeliever's heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic's Hell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Heart
  • May
  • Death

• We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Earth

• We came, we saw, he died.

  

  Hillary Clinton

• There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Good
  • Silly

• Dubuffet marvels at the desert as a chaotic palimpsest, filled with marks and signs ..like an immense notebook of disorganization, a notebook of improvisation.. ..an elementary school blackboard full of scribbles..

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • School
  • Desert

• Yeah, the gay pride movement is precious and all, but I think it's about time we asked ourselves what gay people really have to offer to society.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Time
  • Society

• Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • May
  • Age
  • Fancy