Quotes
Quotes about Race
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]
A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their death; only they differ in the race of their lives.
But I will trace the footsteps of the chief events. [Lat., Sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.]
A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chair of the ladies, and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets- doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbour's sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing.
Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?
Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. -Theocritus.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strongâ but that's the way to bet it.
And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more; A fourth is come with perfume sprinkled o'er. 'Tis Berenice blest and fair; were she Away the Graces would no Graces be.
Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.
Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above! Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race, Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place; For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear, Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year; Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly, Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace.
Teach me to live that I may dread The grace as little as my bed.
My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as eternal salvation--come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.
And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan!
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell!
Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven, Before, behind thee, and on every hand, Enwheel thee round!
