World Quotes
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The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall be ashamed nor confounded world without end. (Quote by - Bible)
In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
There is but little in this world which can go wrong because everything is a blessing in disguise. (Quote by - Kazi Shams)
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou are not my friend; I am not thine. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square. (Quote by - Bishop George Berkeley)
We can only change the world by changing men. (Quote by - Charles Wells)
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. (Quote by - Francis Palgrave)
The world is a living image of God. (Quote by - Tommaso Campanella)
It takes all sorts of people to make a world. (Quote by - Douglas Jerrold)
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
The verdict of the world is conclusive. (Quote by - Saint Aurelius Augustine)
The year's at the Spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hillside's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his Heaven. All's right with the world! (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world. (Quote by - Henry Arthur Jones)
This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)
The world is God's world, after all. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
The world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, And if we did our duty, it might be as full of love. (Quote by - Gerald Massey)
Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world. (Quote by - Book of Common Prayer)
Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. (Quote by - Horace Walpole)
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. (Quote by - John Locke)
Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own. (Quote by - Maltese Proverb)
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires. (Quote by - Horace Traubel)
This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun. (Quote by - John Armstrong)
The pomps and vanity of this wicked world. (Quote by - Bible)
If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world had never been. (Quote by - Charles C. Leland)
Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world. (Quote by - Cicero)
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. (Quote by - Ben Elton)
Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. . . . . But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray. (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)
Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings. (Quote by - Dante Alighieri)
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its customs and its businesses, Is no concern at all of his, And says--what says he?--Caw. (Quote by - Vincent Bourne)
The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again, Sweet wife. No, never come over again. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, There's nothing true but Heaven. (Quote by - George Moore)
The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
O world as God has made it! All is beauty. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
Half the world does not know how the other half lives. (Quote by - Francois Rabelais)
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
'Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in; But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own; 'Tis the very worst world that ever was known. (Quote by - J. Bromfield)
This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a little thing. (Quote by - Bible)
The world gels better every day--then worse again in the evening. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. (Quote by - Bible)
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something. (Quote by - Dean Rusk)
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. (Quote by - Francis H. Bradley)
But they will maintain the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft. (Quote by - Bible)
I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
'If the world had no feeling, then there would be no suffering, the world would be such a better place, but the price would be never feeling happiness. is that a too higher price to pay?'. (Quote by - Portia Higgs)
He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it! (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. (Quote by - Carlo Goldoni)
