#whose

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant? ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#ignorant #look #monuments #mortals #names

Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run. ↗

— David Garrick

#course #hail #i #others #rising

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. ↗

— Henry George

#desires #fed #increase #man #never

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#family #family tradition #father #heavily #living

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#buds #fragrant #harvest #honey #rose

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#chambers #colour #enchanted #every #face

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow. ↗

— James Larkin

#blow #broken #brooding #fresh #loathe

Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass? ↗

— Frank Lautenberg

#child #death #free #get #injury

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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