Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.
My bedtime was 8 P. M. But on Cosby nights, I got to stay up until 8:30. Real big deal. This is when they could afford to do a completely different title sequence in TV every year. I always looked forward to that. It was like a mini musical at the top of the show. My favorite was the Top Hat fancy version.
That which parents should take care of. . . is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper. . . no one cared what he believed about its origin.
It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets.
No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.
Its so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything.
Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it.
Maybe I'm going from that tomboy-ish state to feeling a bit more womanly. I've enjoyed wearing some fancy frocks. It's nice once in a while.
The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
I really fancy Eddie Redmayne. I wouldn't mind a few steamy scenes with him.
I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.
And if you're not buying my dinnner or you think you fancy, you're not getting a date with The Miz!
A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.
