Stones Quotes - Page 6

I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again.

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.

I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I repudiate, as ridiculously absurd, that much-lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that "all men are born equal.

The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.

With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!

As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.

A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.

The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.

If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.