Glory Quotes
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Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
Thomas Hobbes
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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.
William Blake
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Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.
Lord Byron
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Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.
Arthur Cravan
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Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore they are noted. They do not praise themselves, therefore they have merit. They do not glory in themselves, therefore they excel.
Lao Tzu
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Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.
C. D. Broad
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Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.
Lord Byron
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To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.
Donald Miller
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There is no glory in the art of imitation. You cannot be someone else.
Usha Uthup
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Glory and gore go hand in hand.
Lorde
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The glory of the one who moves everything penetrates the universe, and shines in one part more and less elsewhere.
Dante Alighieri
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The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.
Jose Rizal
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Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his views were received with scorn. But that was about two thousand five hundred years ago. A handful of his dedicated followers passed on Confucius' teachings to future generations.
After Confucius' death, his followers published his teachings in the book, The Analects of Confucius.
Confucius
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It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.
E. B. White
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To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.
Napoleon Bonaparte
