Areopagitica Milton Quotes & Sayings

I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells. — King Tuff

When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else. — Brad Paisley

The curtains were made for moving Cause you know sometimes you're not always there — John Frusciante

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. — Marianne Williamson

He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth. — John Milton

I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. — John Milton

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? — Walt Whitman

And what doe they tell us vainly of new opinions, when this very opinion of theirs, that none must be heard but whom they like, is the worst and newest opinion of all others, and is the chief cause why sects and schisms doe so much abound and true knowledge is kept at distance from us ; besides yet a greater danger which is in it. — John Milton

Know, that so far to distrust' the judgement and the honesty of one who hath but a common repute in Learning and never yet offended, as not to count him fit to print his mind without a tutor and examiner lest he should drop a schism or something of corruption, is the greatest displeasure and indignity to a free and knowing spirit that can be put upon him. — John Milton

Our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home. — Karen Blixen

I like to show as much of a woman as I can. I like to fill things out. — Kelly Lynch

It's as if your money, by conceit inexhaustible, isn't real, so your generosity isn't real, either. — Lionel Shriver

Meandering leads to perfection. — Laozi

If we think to regulat Printing, thereby to rectifie manners, we must regulat all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightfull to Man. — John Milton

Ye cannot make us now lesse capable, lesse knowing, lesse eagarly pursuing of the Truth, unlesse ye first make yourselves that made us so, lesse the lovers, lesse the founders of our true Liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formall, and slavish as ye found us, but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous as they were from whom ye have free'd us. — John Milton