No man who worships education has got the best out of education. . . Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
The gentle fair on nervous tea relies, Whilst gay good-nature sparkles in her eyes; An inoffensive scandal fluttering round, Too rough to tickle, and too light to wound.
Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.
There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.
Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!
He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives.
There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.
Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.
Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.
Old #64 chose. . . a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.
Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.