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The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

John Vance Cheney

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Dorothy Parker
US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

Anne Frank
German Jewish diarist (1929 - 1945)

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Tom Robbins
US novelist (1936 - )

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.

George Santayana
US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952)

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Aphra Behn

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
US movie actress (1908 - 1989)

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
English novelist (1797 - 1851)

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711
English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 - 1719)

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Dorothy Parker
US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Peter De Vries

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.

Woody Allen, Annie Hall
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?

David Merritt, a.k.a. THE RED SHARK

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

Theophile Gautier

...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.

Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary", ch. 12
French realist novelist (1821 - 1880)

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

James Joseph Sylvester

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato, The Republic
Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)

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