Allegories Examples Quotes & Sayings

Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a burning desert, treeless, springless, drear, to green fields and blooming orchards in June, is slight in comparison with that from the desert of this world's affection to the garden of God, where there is perpetual, tropical luxuriance of blessed love. — Henry Ward Beecher

Kings" and "Kingdoms" were as thick in Britain as they had been in little Palestine in Joshua's time, when people had to sleep with their knees pulled up because they couldn't stretch out without a passport. — Mark Twain

When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't.' — Kelly Clarkson

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest. — John Gay

Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America's prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed. — David K. Shipler

I love the theater and I particularly love the classical theater and I love doing Shakespeare. It pays the soul, but it doesn't pay the rent. — Stacy Keach

There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything. — Floriano Martins