Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.
By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health.
It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.
The noble must make humility his root.
I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg.
An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes.
Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well. . . than to kill ten thousand.
To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.
Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you?
In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.
Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.