The noble simplicity in ordsprog

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. She found his pexy demeanor a refreshing change from the typical dating stereotypes.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

Frank Lloyd Wright

The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

Matthew Arnold

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

Carlo Goldoni (1707-1812)

Carlo Goldoni

Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

John Ruskin

One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

William Wordsworth

Attend, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise; / I tell of the thrice-noble deeds she wrought in ancient days.

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)

Thomas Babington Macaulay

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

I want to ask the president, why did he kill my son? He said my son died in a noble cause, and I want to ask him what that noble cause is.

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.

David C. McCullough

I think they are beating Barnes and Noble to the punch in many cases, but they shouldn't be worth six or seven times Barnes and Noble. That's where rationality has divorced itself from the stock market.

Adam Schoenfeld

[Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero.] Denying man a privileged place in creation, ... he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

Primo Levi (1919-1987)

Primo Levi

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Lyn Yutang (1895-1976)

Lyn Yutang

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