Stone Quotes

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. (Sigmund Freud)
A rolling stone can gather no moss. View quote
Publilius Syrus
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. View quote
Lucretius
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. View quote
Pericles
Civilization will not attain perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. View quote
Émile Zola
Leave no stone unturned. View quote
Euripides
Under every stone lurks a politician. View quote
Aristophanes
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. View quote
Charles Darwin
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. (Henry David Thoreau)
PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness. View quote
Beatrice Arthur
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. View quote
Ramakrishna
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. View quote
Albert Camus
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? View quote
William Butler Yeats
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either. View quote
Vitruvius
The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. (Pericles)
It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power. View quote
Thomas Malthus
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. View quote
José Rizal
With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me dye; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lye. View quote
Alexander Pope
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