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"Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground." »William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1
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"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away." »Sir Arthur Helps
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"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away." »Sir Arthur Helps
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"No sensible man watches his feet hit the ground. He looks ahead to see what kind of ground they'll hit next." »Ernest Haycox
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"My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits its form to things it meets: unknowable. What can be known is, it always goes where it must go, always stops where it cannot help stopping -- nothing else. More than that, even I cannot know." »Su Shih
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"It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not." »R. W. Griswold
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"I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Marriage. Why do we do it Everybody knows the stats. One in two marriages end up in broken dishes and a trip to Tijuana. Is it loneliness Partly. Is it teamwork Definitely. Things just kind of go easier when there's two of you. One of you can wait in line at the movie theater while the other guy parks the car. Get better seats that way. Better room rate when it's a double. Are you ready to file jointly...Above you is the sun and sky. Below you, the ground. Like the sun, your love should be constant, like the ground, solid." »Jed Seidel
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"The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain." »Peggy Noonan, special assistant and speech writer to Reagan, 1984-88
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"The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered." »Joseph J. Lamb
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"You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second Marriage in my house;
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line
And "Up-and-down" by Logic I define,
Of all that one should care to fathom, I
Was never deep in anything but - Wine." »from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)
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"When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless." »Bertrand Russell
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"We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity." »Kabbalah
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"Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion." »George Eliot
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"When you sling mud, you lose ground." »Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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"The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground...." »Unknown
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"As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!" »Amelia Earhart
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"Fly so high with my feet never leaving the ground." »John A. Carter
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"Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"Truth is the only safe ground to stand on." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"Virtue lies in the middle ground." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"The ground that a good man treads is hallowed." »Johann von Goethe
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"A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground." »Anonymous
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"The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God." »Charles Hodge
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"A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"Food is our common ground, a universal experience." »James Beard
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"Let your works climb the stars; but you yourself stay on the ground!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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