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"He who is full of faith and modesty, who shrinks from sin, and is full of learning, who is diligent, unremiss, and full of understanding?he, being replete with these seven things, is esteemed a wise man." »Burmese Proverb
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"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." »Johann von Goethe
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"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned." »George Santayana
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"Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it." »George Lorimer
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"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned." »Immanuel Kant
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"Lloyd When I met Mary, I got that old fashioned romantic feeling, where I'd do anything to bone her." »Dumb & Dumber
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"It looks as if it was put in by an Indian. (looking at an old-fashioned fuse box while on a factory tour near Edinburgh)" »Prince Phillip
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"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit." »Abbie Hoffman
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"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain." »John Dryden
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"The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature." »Arnold Bennett
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"The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it." »Helen Keller
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"By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom." »Omar Khayyam
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it." »Helen Keller
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." »Helen Keller
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." »Helen Keller
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"There is a word that is so old fashioned -- I feel compelled to dust it off just to use it in this sentence -- RECIPROCITY -- the “soul-coal” that stoked many barn raisings, harvests and roundups." »Chase LeBlanc
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"I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living." »Hal
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"Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"Ther are so many people. It is easy to forget how full th world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistantly misimagined." »John Green
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"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky." »Jim Bishop
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"Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. ... He is the life of every party, and out to prove he is just as young as he ever was. A grandchild who makes the mistake of calling him 'Gramps' is lucky if he isn't rewarded by a quick kick in the stomach." »Hal
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"Damn the torpedoes, Drayton, go ahead! Jouett, full speed! (frequently erroreously quoted as 'Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead')" »David Glasgow Farragut
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"From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people." »Louis Adamic
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"Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them." »Homer
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"Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them." »Homer, The Odyssey
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"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them." »Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
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"A full cup must be carried steadily." »English Proverb
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"The graveyards are full of indispensable men." »Charles De Gaulle
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"History is full of surprises." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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