Wonders Quotes
(1 - 10 of 22)Nothing but what astonishes is true.
Nothing but what astonishes is true.
We nothing know, but what is marvellous;
Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
We nothing know, but what is marvellous;
Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer's cloud
Without our special wonder?
Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer's cloud
Without our special wonder?
It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood.
Stones have been known to move and trees to more
It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood.
Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;
Augures and understood relations have
By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth
The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?
She swore, i' faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange;
'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful.
She swore, i' faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange;
'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful.
There's something in a flying horse,
There's something in a huge balloon.
There's something in a flying horse,
There's something in a huge balloon.
This wonder lasted nine daies.
This wonder lasted nine daies.
The things that have been and shall be no more,
The things that are, and that hereafter shall be,
more
The things that have been and shall be no more,
The things that are, and that hereafter shall be,
The things that might have been, and yet were not,
The fading twilight of joys departed.
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a
philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy more
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a
philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than
this.
