George Sandys quotes

“Lips, like roses dropping myrrh.”
-- George Sandys

Source : George Sandys (1872). “The Poetical Works”, p.349

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“Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.”
-- George Sandys

Source : 1610 On the monks of Patmos. Relation of aJourney Begun An. Dom.1610.

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“Art is dedicated echo.”
-- George Sandys

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“A building without ornamentation is like a heaven without stars.”
-- George Sandys

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“You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.”

“My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.”

Source : Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

“Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.”

“Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.”

“You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life ...”

Source : Arthur Rimbaud (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.51, Oxford University Press

“Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Translation of Greek Proverb, Book XIII. 17. 3, 1922.

“Beespittle, droppings, hairs of beefur: all become honey. Virulent micro-organisms cannot survive in honey.”

“But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.”

“There is nothing like competition. It teaches you early in life to win and lose, and, when you lose, to put your chin out instead of dropping it.”

“Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.”