Citatepedia^®.com

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

quote by Giraldus Cambrensis
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface.

quote by James Loeb
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

quote by William Falconer
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

quote by Carl Sagan
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian

And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure.

quote by Hjalmar Schacht
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

London shall outlive you.

The road to London is still open
To its heart
and its workings long into the day and its night
Throw what you will
You will never stop its thought
Stroke your inconsiderable craving
Peer into a time that you are not ready for
But most of all run
to the ends of your lives
Yes run!

poem by Lindsay Crosby
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

The Famous Speech-Maker Of England Or Baron (Alias Barren) Lovel’s Charge At The Assizes At Exon, April 5, 1710

From London to Exon,
By special direction,
Came down the world's wonder,
Sir Salathiel Blunder,
With a quoif on his head
As heavy as lead;
And thus opened and said:

Gentlemen of the Grand Inquest,

Her majesty, mark it,
Appointed this circuit
For me and my brother,
Before any other;
To execute laws,
As you may suppose,
Upon such as offenders have been.
So then, not to scatter

[...] Read more

poem by Jonathan Swift
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Euterpe: A Cantanta

Argument.
Hail to thee, Sound!—The power of Euterpe in all the scenes of life—
in religion; in works of charity; in soothing troubles by means of music;
in all humane and high purposes; in war; in grief; in the social circle;
the children’s lullaby; the dance; the ballad; in conviviality;
when far from home; at evening—the whole ending with an allegorical chorus,
rejoicing at the building of a mighty hall erected for the recreation
of a nation destined to take no inconsiderable part in the future history
of the world.

Overture

No. 1 Chorus

All hail to thee, Sound! Since the time
Calliope’s son took the lyre,
And lulled in the heart of their clime
The demons of darkness and fire;
Since Eurydice’s lover brought tears

[...] Read more

poem by Henry Kendall
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Hudibras: Part 3 - Canto III

THE ARGUMENT

The Knight and squire's prodigious Flight
To quit th' inchanted Bow'r by Night.
He plods to turn his amorous Suit
T' a Plea in Law, and prosecute
Repairs to Counsel, to advise
'Bout managing the Enterprise;
But first resolves to try by Letter,
And one more fair Address, to get her.

WHO wou'd believe what strange bugbears
Mankind creates itself of fears
That spring like fern, that insect weed,
Equivocally, without seed;
And have no possible foundation,
But merely in th' imagination;
And yet can do more dreadful feats
Than hags, with all their imps and teats
Make more bewitch and haunt themselves

[...] Read more

poem by Samuel Butler
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!