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Some sipping punch, some sipping tea,/ But, as you by their faces see,/ All silent and all damned!


William Wordsworth

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He was unmistakably sipping iced tea with the hatters and the hares.
TONY VIGORITO I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder
MINGMEI YIP I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.
MARIA MENOUNOS Yeah, the Mac Life... it's about sipping some tea, getting together with the knitting circle. Yo...
CONOR MCGREGOR There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping b...
JEFFREY BERNARD Disrespect is tired. Shade is old. Sipping 'tea' isn't cute. But loving, supporting, giv...
GRACE GEALEY Dearly beloved – dearly revered – dearly discovered – dearly feared – all present – all po...
DHARLENE MARIE FAHL Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
GILBERT WHITE Tequila is for shots -- Patron is for sipping.
NANCY BAGLEY You can't enjoy sipping of success without first enduring failure's fire
PHILLIP GARY SMITH Why the spurt? Small cars powered by gas-sipping engines that start at $4,000.
MICHAEL DUNNE I love America for its bourgeois comfort. If I was as heavily in debt as they are, I wouldn't be dri...
VANN CHOW She gave in to a hankering for a cup of tea even though she knew that the idea of a cup of tea-sitti...
MARYANNE O'HARA Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping ...
ELAINE STRITCH And now, I am dying beyond my means. Sipping champagne on his deathbed
OSCAR WILDE And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]
OSCAR WILDE ...sips fuel like a mouse sipping sherry from a hypodermic needle.
JEREMY CLARKSON Here With my beer I sit, While golden moments flit: Alas! They pass ...
GEORGE ARNOLD Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,...
GEORGE ARNOLD I was sipping then I started reminiscing then I started chipping you right out of my life.
SUSIE L HILL Methought I say the footsteps of a throne. - William Wordsworth,
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Want some tea?" she said.
"What?"
"I thought some tea might be nice. A nice cup of oolong....
D.L. KING You see firemen, you see cops, and these guys risk their lives everyday. They do this all the time ....
BILLY JOEL Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, . . . . Leave the chaff, and take ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I think most of the talk about this is just blather and too much cough-syrup sipping.
BARRY COLLIER How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed;...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) 'Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their p...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with...
D.T. SUZUKI Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden ...
LEMONY SNICKET I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I ...
JOHNNY WEIR That's alright," said Hugo. "I've got some wine"

Which was about all he seemed to have. H...
STEPHEN FRY If coffee meant vagina, I’d ask you if you wanted cream in your coffee. But it doesn’t mean that...
JAROD KINTZ He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it—you can see it all over their faces.
RON ATKINSON Hey, thanks for stopping by," Howard said. "I'd offer you some tea and cookies, but all we have is b...
MICHAEL GRANT But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
ANDREW MOTION What I see in every game is teams that are really prepared. There are no easy outs. Most of the talk...
BARRY COLLIER Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to j...
TED DEKKER What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
ERIC HOFFER Start the day with open mind.With open mind you are also opening your heart to the magic of the univ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We all wear masks. Some hide our faces, some hide our beliefs, and some hide our pain. Through all t...
SS038NICK On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but...
UZO ADUBA You lie,” he said. “All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Pictures, props, models, demos, all add punch and give a sense of having got some way into the proce...
EVAN DAVIS You might want to put some clothes on' suggested Jace 'I'm all for the bra and panties look, but you...
CASSANDRA CLARE All the items for the silent auction are all donated from the vendors, from different departments on...
LORA HELOU If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation ...
ROBIN HOBB I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned rea...
JOSIAH ROYCE Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the k...
STAN KENTON I think it's good for the defense to have that rest on the sideline sipping water and Gatorade while...
KYLE BROWN We ask you to speak for all those silent, anonymous victims of tobacco grieved by their loved ones b...
STANLEY ROSENBLATT Prince Charles and his son William worked off their Christmas dinner yesterday by trying to blast so...
JOHN MCEACHRAN ..quite limitless: climbing a Swiss Alp, tasting wine at a French chateau, renting a surfboard in Po...
ROUGH GUIDES Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of t...
STAN KENTON Say you can't put one foot in front of the other, you punch like a child, and you're not fle...
CHAD STAHELSKI Maybe love was a woman feeding him pancakes. Maybe it was someone sitting across from him sipping or...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN Sunny held Kit, and Violet held Klaus, and for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, let...
LEMONY SNICKET You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.
J. ASKENBERG You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.
J. ASKENBERG The idea of the trail is to not only see some showy blossoms but to also see some nice areas of the ...
MAXWELL NORTON Is this some city? You go looking for Vermeer and you find William Blake.
JOHN SCANLON I'm not sure of the count but that was one of the bad things for me, to see these little kids gettin...
ERNIE WESTGARTH I mean, have you ever imagined

the ocean is alive, and needs to tell us something importa...
JEFFREY MCDANIEL Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fo...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You see the hurt and pain in these kids' faces and you can just tell they've had a hard life. But wh...
ERNIE MILLS I'm keen to see some new faces and think it's time for that to happen,
DAVID MCKAY Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be ...
ARISTOTLE And the alcoholic bastard waved his finger at me, His voice was filled with evangelical glee, Sippin...
DANNY ELFMAN When all else fails, drink some tea. Really. You'll be amazed how many problems it can solve. We lik...
TARA COTTRELL Meditation is the process of transformation and beautification of soul from a leaf-eating caterpilla...
AMIT RAY You could see it in their faces.
CANON WHITE You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Sometimes people won't notice symptoms for a few days. They might experience some abdominal pain, so...
KATHY JACOBITZ Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS Montana, Colorado, Wyoming. Some damned place,
BOB KNIGHT What you see on television, the pictures, the victims and the damage. It's all there — but then add...
DENNIS MITCHELL America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun...
MALCOLM X If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and e...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and e...
LINNAEUS You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you ca...
PHINEAS T. BARNUM Some stores aren't impacted at all, some stores need some more people and some stores will adjust th...
CHRIS BRATHWAITE Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inherita...
ALAN WATTS Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritanc...
ALAN WATTS Some groups are nationally known, some regionally and some local, but they're all giving their time....
RAFAEL MENDEZ Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales whi...
THOMAS FULLER Some drivers have more experience on road courses than others, but as time goes by, it all levels ou...
BRYAN HERTA Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, ea...
CAT CORA You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Some people will appreciate you and some people will love you. Some people may even hate you. It all...
DEBASISH MRIDHA You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyon...
RANI MUKERJI It's too hard for us also to see so many children and to see some dying and some handicapped and kno...
KP KUSHWAHA We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smil...
BARBARA DEMICK Some people may not know us. But I guarantee you that in clubhouses around the league, they know who...
CC SABATHIA We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on a cigar-box lid.
WILLA SIBERT CATHER You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie/ Couched on the bald top of an eminence.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is m...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Rest and be thankful.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Sensations sweet,Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH How men livedEven next-door neighbors, as we say, yet stillStrangers, not knowing each the other's n...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ...The happy Warrior... 'tis he whose law is reason; who depends upon that law as on the best of fri...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Tho...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of someth...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
S...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
T...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together . . . humble ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And now I see with eye sereneThe very pulse of the machine.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Beloved Vale, I said, When I shall con those many records of my childish years
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none;
Look up a second time, and, one by one,
...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The silence that is in the starry sky,
The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollect...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH We have within ourselves
Enough to fill the present day with joy,
And overspread the future ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares, and delicate fears;
A heart, the fount...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Sweet childish days, that were as long as twenty days are now
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And mighty poets in their misery dead.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH By our own spirits are we deified:We Poets in our youth begin in gladness;But thereof come in the en...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH