| "Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands." »The Book of the Dead |
| "If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure." »Buddha |
| "To the pure, all things are pure." »Arabic Proverb |
| "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." »Oscar Wilde |
| "O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet." »Saint Augustine |
| "I'm as pure as the driven slush." »Tallulah Bankhead |
| "There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison." »Andr Maurois |
| "Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself." »Sir Arthur Eddington |
| "If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this." »Kitaro Nishida |
| "Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us." »Sir Thomas Browne |
| "No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable." »James Arthur Baldwin |
| "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre." »Gail Godwin |
| "To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance." »Buddha |
| "Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight." »Barbara Schapiro |
| "pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit." »Alexandre Dumas |
| "Most certification today is pure 'credentialism.' It must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our appreciation of parchment." »William John Bennett |
| "That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust." »Gustave Flaubert |
| "If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love." »N. P. Willis |
| "Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." »E. B. White |
| "I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy" »Louise Bogan |
| "True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart." »Honore' de Balzac |
| "When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea." »Hung Tzu-ch'eng |
| "The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever." »Virginia |
| "Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight." »Sri da Avabhas |
| "On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved." »Mark Twain |
| "If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure" »Nicolas Boileau |
| "Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed." »Reinhold Niebuhr |
| "To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form." »Hermann Hesse |
| "To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive." »James Boswell |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
