#noble

It was a saying about noble figures in old Irish poems—he would give his hawk to any man that asked for it, yet he loved his hawk better than men nowadays love their bride of tomorrow. He would mourn a dog with more grief than men nowadays mourn their fathers. ↗

— Ted Hughes

#nowadays #love

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#men #noble #men

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. ↗

— Aristotle

#braves #cowardice #death #does #escape

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#calculation #everything #noble #product #reason

The noble man is only God's image. ↗

— Ludwig Tieck

#image #man #noble #only

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman. ↗

— Thomas Day

#british #compare #education #i #nobleman

The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#association #bilateral #causes #commercial #decisions

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind. ↗

— John Dryden

#love #mind #noblest

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head. ↗

— Bono

#belong #better #head #i #melodies

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#born #bred #children #counsel #examples