Inscriptions Quotes - Page 2

• What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Memorial, Funeral, Heaven

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• La tierra no tiene dolor que el cielo no pueda curar.

  Thomas Moore

  Simpatía, Muerte, Espiritual

  Thomas Moore (1861). "Obras poéticas", p.304

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• Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When a cup shatters, the writing can no longer be read. The wine's the thing! The wine that's held in the mold of these physical cups. Drink the wine and know what lasts and what to love. The man who truly asks must be sure of two things: One, that he's mistaken in what he's doing or thinking now. And two, that there is a wisdom he doesn't know yet. Asking is half of knowing.

  Rumi

  Art, Writing, Wine

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• La historia se desvanece en fábula; los hechos se enturbian con la duda y la controversia; la inscripción se desprende de la lápida: la estatua cae del pedestal. Columnas, arcos, pirámides, ¿qué son sino montones de arena; y sus epitafios, sino caracteres escritos en el polvo?

  Washington Irving

  Otoño, carácter, polvo

  Washington Irving (2006). "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book" (La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow y otras historias del libro de bocetos), p. 144, Penguin.

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• So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spring, Book, Years

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• for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Unity, Tablets

  Virginia Woolf (2006). “To the Lighthouse”, p.92, OUP Oxford

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• Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

  Horace

  Leader, Soul, Return

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 524-25, Carmina, IV. 8, 1922.

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• History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.

  Edward Hallett Carr

  Home, Style, Facts

  Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”

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• Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. Its just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed.

  Carlos Barrios

  Writing, Names, People

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• Habéis erigido en el puerto de New York un ídolo monstruoso al que llamáis Libertad. Lo único que falta para completar ese monumento es poner en su pedestal la inscripción escrita por Dante en la puerta del infierno: Abandonad toda esperanza los que entráis aquí.

  George Bernard Shaw

  New York, Idols, Liberty

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.6038, e-artnow

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• Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.

  Billy Graham

  Kings, Freedom, Rights

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• Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul.

  Diodoro Sículo

  Doors, Medicine, Soul

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• Un viajero en medio del paisaje de los Alpes, rodeado de la más sublime demostración del poder de Dios, tuvo la osadía de escribir junto a su nombre, en un álbum guardado para los visitantes, "Un ateo". Otro que le siguió, escandalizado e indignado por la inscripción, escribió debajo: "Si es ateo, es un tonto; si no, es un mentiroso".

  George Barrell Cheever

  Ateo, Mentirosos, Escritura

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• A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.

  Bernard Ramm

  Tombstone, Cutting, Funeral

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• With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

  Alexander Pope

  Sight, Blue, Years

  Alexander Pope (1797). “Moral essays”, p.305

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• Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Learning, Men, Giving

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• If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Wrinkles

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume”, p.2746, e-artnow

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• Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Creer, Destino, Hombres

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the Moabite stone shows that King Mesa held Chemosh to be, as unquestionably, the superior of Jahveh.

  Thomas Huxley

  Kings, Stones, Elohim

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1892). “Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions”

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• Es divertido detectar el carácter en el vocabulario de cada persona. Los adjetivos utilizados habitualmente, como las inscripciones de un termómetro, indican el temperamento.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Carácter, vocabulario, adjetivos

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). "El optimista", p.79

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• The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

  Marcial

  Husband, Chloe, Shameless

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.400

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• We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the Christian era, showing that the doctrine of Trinity in Unity already formed part of their religion and that ... the three gods only made one person.

  Samuel Sharpe

  Christian, Museums, Unity

  Samuel Sharpe (1863). “Egyptian mythology and Egyptian Christianity, with their influence on the opinions of modern Christendom”, p.14

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• Esta concepción orgánica de la sociedad, la única concepción vital, combina un noble humanismo con el genuino espíritu cristiano, y lleva la inscripción de la Sagrada Escritura que Santo Tomás ha explicado: "La obra de la justicia será la paz"; un texto aplicable a la vida de un pueblo ya sea considerado en sí mismo o en sus relaciones con otras naciones.

  Papa Pío XI

  Christian, People, Justice

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• We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body. I would be the last person to argue that the body signifies at some basic level that precedes or transcends its cultural inscriptions. Nevertheless, there is an ethical imperative not to conflate the body with its representations and mediations, but to remember that there is an actual body there somewhere, experiencing the consequences of what is being done to it.

  Philip Auslander

  Lasts, Would Be, Needs

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• Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in mind' for this work. The artist then need not bother with producing the work, and therefore need not be worried about being dis-satisfied. All he or she needs to do is to sell it to a collector. The collector will have the guarantee that the artist thought about the work, even if momentarily, and therefore be satisfied.

  Semir Zeki

  Artist, Guarantees That, Mind

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