Jimmie Davis quotes

Jimmie Davis quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.”
“Interlude with sunshine. Hello monday mein lazy freund.”
“When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.”
“The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.”
“The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.”

Source : James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1859). “The poetical works of James Gates Percival”, p.1
“Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.”
“For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.”
“I've always felt that any establishment that doesn't welcome me with open arms doesn't deserve my patronage.”

Source : Amy Plum (2012). “Until I Die: Number 2 in series”, p.52, Hachette UK
“Welcome delegates to the 2012 Republican Convention! Remember to set your watches back 400 years.”
“Help for first time buyers and other housing market measures will be welcome.”

Source : "The budget: we pick the key points for local authorities" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2011.

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