Swelleth Quotes & Sayings

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age. — Publilius Syrus

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. — Paula Spencer

Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

When I was girl by Nilus stream
I watched the deserts stars arise;
My lover, he who dreamed the Sphinx,
Learned all his dreaming from eyes.
I bore in Greece a burning name,
And I have been in Italy
Madonna to a painter-lad,
And mistress to a Medici.
And have you heard (and I have heard)
Of puzzled men with decorous mien,
Who judged - the wench knew far too much -
And burnt her on the Salem green? — Adelaide Crapsey

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God. — Daniel J. Boorstin

An oven that is stopp'd, or river stay'd,
Burneth more hotly, swelleth with more rage:
So of concealed sorrow may be said;
Free vent of words love's fire doth assuage;
But when the heart's attorney once is mute,
The client breaks, as desperate in his suit. — William Shakespeare

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000. — Nick Clooney

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development. — Andrew Mitchell

Plato says that as one learns to love, the image of any specific beloved can be left behind for knowledge of the Good. — William T. Vollmann

My sisters were in that van. — Lauren DeStefano

It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place. Everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it. — John Steinbeck

Life is pain. We are all in pain, all the time."
"There are other things this universe has to offer," says the creature, "Light, live, touch, sensation. The way you are all made of the same pieces; the same fragments of stardust and yet you are all so different. — Amie Kaufman