Splendid Quotes - Page 18

• Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative. Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Animal, Men, Years

  "'The Ascent of Man' ('Lower than the Angels')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 1, 1973.

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• Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

  Annie Besant

  Country, Courage, Adventure

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• If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Prayer, Abiding

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061”, p.35, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Flower, Domes

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.97, Applewood Books

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• It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.

  Thomas Cole

  Sunset, Sky, Soul

  "The collected essays and prose sketches".

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• If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fashion, Men, Temptation

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.38

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• She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.

  Jim Morrison

  Jesus, Names, Tasks

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• There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.

  Immanuel Kant

  Innocence, Protect, Turns

  Immanuel Kant, Mary J. Gregor (1999). “Practical Philosophy”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.

  Pablo Casals

  Love, Life, Country

  "Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn". Book by Albert E. Kahn, 1974.

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