Palaces Quotes - Page 2

• There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

  Robert Owen

  Heart, Men, Cottages

  20 Copy quote

• Why don’t you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything

  Zhuangzi

  Trying, Wander

  9 Copy quote

• Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Dream, Sweet

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 29

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Serenity, Cottages

  14 Copy quote

• Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Luxury, Enlightenment

  21 Copy quote

• How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not feel it quarrelling with one's liver. No; 'tis rather a peace-maker, and lies as quiet as it did in the grape. Then it is as fragrant as the Queen Bee, and the more ethereal part mounts into the brain, not assaulting the cerebral apartments, like a bully looking for his trull, and hurrying from door to door, bouncing against the wainscott, but rather walks like Aladdin about his enchanted palace, so gently that you do not feel his step.

  John Keats

  Queens, Lying, Wine

  9 Copy quote

• Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

  Ansel Adams

  Fighting, Destiny, Men

  12 Copy quote

• Allegory dwells in a transparent palace.

  Antoine-Marin Lemierre

  Speech, Allegory, Transparent

  "La Peinture". Poem by Antoine-Marin Lemierre, 1769.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Night, Dream

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

  79 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty.

  Laozi

  Weed, Taoism, Fields

  4 Copy quote

• Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

  Francois Mauriac

  Men, Wings, Venture

  "Journal, 1932-1939". Book by François Mauriac, Table ronde, p. 6, 1947.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kings, Men, Civilization

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

  Imelda Marcos

  Dream, Years, Sea

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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
  And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
  Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
  On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
  A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
  The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
  And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
  Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Rain, Past

  Wang Wei, “Looking Down In A Spring-Rain”

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.

  Edward Gibbon

  Attachment, History, Important

  Edward Gibbon, William George Smith (1857). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.175

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

  James Joyce

  Heart, Dark, Tyrants

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.29, GENERAL PRESS

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• With equal pace, impartial Fate
  Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

  Horace

  Fate, Cottages, Pace

  Horace, Philip Francis (1779). “A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace: With Notes Collected from His Best Latin and French Commentators”, p.11

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Cities, Perfect

  8 Copy quote

• All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned, and there are people who remain miserable even when they are living in marble palaces. It all depends on you.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, People, Alternatives

  8 Copy quote

• Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

  Thomas Traherne

  Morning, Father, Angel

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Long live gravity! Long live
  stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces
  of fantasy capitalism!

  Wendell Berry

  Errors, Long, Stupidity

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.80, The Golden Sufi Center

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Selfish, Rags, Thrones

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.48, Advaita Ashrama

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

  Leonard Maltin

  United States, Los Angeles, Residents

  9 Copy quote

• Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Boys, Giving, Accomplishment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.406, Рипол Классик

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Dream, Sleep

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

  55 Copy quote

  Show source