World

"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

"They most the world enjoy who least admire."

"Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new."

"The world's a bubble—and the life of man Less than a span. In his conception wretched, and from the womb So to the tomb. Nurst from the cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns in water, and but writes in dust."

"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."

"I have my beauty,—you your Art— Nay, do not start: One world was not enough for two Like me and you."

"Anchorite, who didst dwell With all the world for cell!"

"Why is the world so beautiful? is a question that we all ought to be embracing."

"I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world."

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours."

"I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them."

"What is this world? A net to snare the soule."

"Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes."

"There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself."

"Man of the World (for such wouldst thou be called)— And art thou proud of that inglorious style?"

"Do we have all the hatred and all the aversion for the world which Our Lord requires, and which his example must inspire in us?"

"For, if the worlds In worlds enclosed should on his senses burst * * * He would abhorrent turn."

"Heed not the folk who sing or say In sonnet sad or sermon chill, "Alas, alack, and well-a-day! This round world's but a bitter pill." We too are sad and careful; still We'd rather be alive than not."

"People can’t understand the world as a gift unless someone shows them how it’s a gift."

"If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace—that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government—for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable—in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end?… It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history."

"Was ist ihm nun die Welt? ein weiter leerer Raum, Fortunen's Spielraum, frei ihr Rad herum zu rollen."

"When the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart."

"Let not the cooings of the world allure thee: Which of her lovers ever found her true?"

"The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion."

"Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world."

"For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm; Till the war-drums throbb'd, no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law."

"Even the linked fantasies, in whose blossomy twist I swung the earth a trinket at my wrist."

"A mad world, my masters."

"My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world."

"The world cannot be translated; it can only be dreamed of and touched."

"There was all the world and his wife."

"So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be."

"In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless."

"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."

"For a brief space conceive yourself to be transported to one of the loftiest peaks of some inaccessible mountain, thence gaze on the appearances of things lying below you, and with eyes turned in various directions look upon the eddies of the billowy world, while you yourself are removed from earthly contacts—you will at once begin to feel compassion for the world, and with self-recollection and increasing gratitude to God, you will rejoice with all the greater joy that you have escaped it."

"He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its customs and its businesses, Is no concern at all of his, And says—what says he?—Caw."

"Such stuff the world is made of."

"'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd."

"The pomps and vanity of this wicked world."

"This world's a bubble."

"This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in: But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own, It is the worst world that ever was known."

"Socrates, quidem, cum rogaretur cujatem se esse diceret, "Mundanum," inquit; totius enim mundi se incolam et civem arbitrabatur."

"Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world."

"The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world."

"Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong."

"Map me no maps, sir; my head is a map, a map of the whole world."

"Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!"

"The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square."

"Mais dans ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots."

"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens."