Bells Quotes

• A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Love, Song, Heart

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• Ring the bells that still can ring.

  Leonard Cohen

  Depression, Perfect, Giving Light

  FaceBook post by Leonard Cohen from Mar 11, 2009

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• Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World!
  You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled.
  Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring
  The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Flower, Rose

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.123, Penguin

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• The truth is, Pavlov's dog trained Pavlov to ring this bell just before the dog salivated.

  George Carlin

  Dog, Truth, Pavlov

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• Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Men, Hands

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

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• Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings.

  Frances Goodrich

  Mean, Angel, Wings

  "Fictional character: Clarence". "It's a Wonderful Life", www.imdb.com. 1946.

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• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

  Walter Bagehot

  People, Poverty, Anomalies

  Walter Bagehot (1944). “Literary Studies”

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• The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

  Ezra Pound

  People, Church, Literature

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• ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

  John Donne

  Death, Grief, Bereavement

  John Donne, “No Man Is An Island”

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• Above the clouds I lift my wing
  To hear the bells of Heaven ring;
  Some of their music, though my fights be wild,
  To Earth I bring;
  Then let me soar and sing!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Fighting, Clouds, Wings

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• How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Memories, Fall

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.293

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• Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

  Graham Greene

  Dumb, Literature, World

  'The Quiet American' (1955) pt. 1, ch. 3

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• Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.

  George Herbert

  Church Bells, Church

  George Herbert (1862). “The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse”

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• Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Lying, Party

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Complete in One Volume”, p.30

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• Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

  Earl Warren

  Towers, World, Today

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• When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Men, Funeral

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

  Shirley Bassey

  Wedding, Years, Married

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• No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Giving, Sullen

  Sonnet 71

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• This is how we loosen up for the morning announcements. Whoever has the football when the bell rings loses.

  Tom O'Connor

  Football, Morning, Announcements

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• At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.

  Allen Johnson

  July, Names, Philadelphia

  Allen Johnson, Edward Samuel Corwin (1926). “The age of Jefferson and Marshall: Part 1: Jefferson and his colleagues, by Allen Johnson. Part 2: John Marshall and the Constitution, by Edward S. Crowin”

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• Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.

  Mike Royko

  Cat, Choices, Cooking

  Mike Royko (2001). “For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.

  Ben Affleck

  Good Movie, Toys, Stores

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Gambling, Funeral, Sound

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• My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.

  Mel Brooks

  Expression, My Favorite, Rings

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• My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Travel, People, Amsterdam

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