Quotations
Quotes:
Love is only one of many passions.
View quotes by Samuel Johnson
We are minor in everything but our passions.
View quotes by Elizabeth Bowen
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
View quotes by Nicolas De Chamfort
When the passions become masters, they are vices
View quotes by Blaise Pascal
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
View quotes by William Osler
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
View quotes by Carl Gustav Jung
Time is the sovereign physician of our passions
View quotes by Montaigne
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
View quotes by Eric Hoffer
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
View quotes by Lord Byron
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
View quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
View quotes by Carl Sandburg
The very beautiful rarely love at all. Those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions
View quotes by Walter Landor
Our passions are most like to floods and streams;
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
View quotes by Sir Walter Ralegh
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters (Aesop's Fables)
View quotes by Sir Roger L'Estrange
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
View quotes by Bernard Baruch
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
View quotes by Laurence Sterne
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions
View quotes by David Hume
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
View quotes by Seneca
The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons.
View quotes by Francis X Clines
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them (A Treatise Upon Human Nature)
View quotes by David Hume
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