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"The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere." »Jim Hightower
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"Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body." »Mildred & Victor Goertzel
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"Safe in thy breast close lock up thy intents, For he that knows thy purpose best prevents." »Randolph
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"Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy." »Homer
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"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue." »Sallust, The War with Catiline
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"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee." »Phyllis Diller
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"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience." »George Washington
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"Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue." »Sallust
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"Harriet What do you look for in a woman you date Charlie Well, I know everyone always says sense of humor, but I'd really have to go with breast size." »So I Married an Axe Murderer
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"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." »George Washington
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"Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." »William Congreve
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"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." »William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
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"Whoever has the seed of virtue and honour implanted in his breast will drop a sympathising tear on the woes of his neighbour." »Nakhshabi
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"If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming." »Metastasio
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"For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breathe, And love itself have rest" »Lord Byron
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"For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause for breath,
And love itself have rest." »Lord Byron
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"The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago." »Dorothea Brande
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"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast." »William Congreve
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"I hate the miser, whose unsocial breast Locks from the world his useless stores. Wealth by the bounteous only is enjoyed, Whose treasures, in diffusive good employed, The rich return of fame and friends procure, And ?gainst a sad reverse a safe retreat secure." »Pindar
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