Free fairy sayings, quotes and quotations
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.
~fairy sayings by W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
~inspirational sayings about History quotes by Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
~fairy quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
~famous quotes about Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
~fairy sayings by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 2 March 1861
Men say that in this midnight hour,The disembodièd have power,To wander as it liketh them,By wizard oak and fairy stream.
~fairy sayings by William Motherwell
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
~inspirational sayings about Reality quotes by Neil Gaiman, Books of Magic III
I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn.
~fairy quotes by W.H. Hudson, The Book of a Naturalist, 1919
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
~famous quotes about Curiosity by Eleanor Roosevelt
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
~fairy sayings by Christian Nevell Bovee
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
~good sayings about Crying by Kurt Vonnegut
The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on
~fairy quotes by Elbert Hubbard
You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
~motivational quotes about Light sayings by Antonio Porchia
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters
~fairy sayings by Thomas Jefferson
I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it.
~fairy sayings by Groucho Marx
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
~good sayings about Education by Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1890
Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
~fairy quotes by Jeff Daly
The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.
~motivational quotes about Attitude sayings by W.J. Cameron
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?
~fairy sayings by Stanislaw J. Lec
You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven okay?
~fairy sayings by Dennis Miller
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
~good sayings about Happiness by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
~fairy quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
~motivational quotes about Being Yourself sayings by Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905
They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.
~fairy sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world.
~fairy sayings by Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
~good sayings about Perseverance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.
~fairy quotes by Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversation: Diogenes and Plato
Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease.
~motivational quotes about Medical sayings by Roul Turley
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
~fairy sayings by H.L. Mencken
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