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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage
— Thomas Jefferson
He was young and ardent in a hundred happy ways.
— Daphne Du Maurier
Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams
— Paul C. Nagel
Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.
— Alfred Capus
Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.
— Sarah Josepha Hale
An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
— Georg Brandes
It is darkness that reveals the brightest stars and most ardent wishes.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.
— Joe Conason
It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.
— Elizabeth Aston
ardent persistence in devotion,
— David Bentley Hart
From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.
— Steven Spielberg
I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.
— Jean Dubuffet
It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.
— Thomas Merton
The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.
— Annie Lennox
We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am the one rich thing that morn
Leaves for the ardent noon to win;
Grasp me not, I have a thorn,
But bend and take my being in. — Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Leaves for the ardent noon to win;
Grasp me not, I have a thorn,
But bend and take my being in. — Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.
— George Washington
High justice would in no way be debased
if ardent love should cancel instantly
the debts these penitents must satisfy. — Dante Alighieri
if ardent love should cancel instantly
the debts these penitents must satisfy. — Dante Alighieri
Her quietude was not weakness; it was an ardent watchfulness that would be replaced by a roar when required.
— Marie Benedict
The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.
— Brendon Burchard
For every sacrifice, there's a reward.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Everything ungirt, artless, ardent, urgent about Louie was to the fore: all over herself she gave the impression of twisted stockings.
— Elizabeth Bowen
The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.
— Emily Dickinson
They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon ans stars were as ardent as they.
— Thomas Hardy
Racy, his cold eyes glitter into ardent life, and his Don
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.
— William Maxwell
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.
— Charles Williams
I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.
— David Attenborough
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
— Sam Abell
is my very ardent desire to be permitted to pay my addresses to you
— Georgette Heyer
Many great things have been accomplished by the careful combination of keen minds and ardent spirits.
— G.D. Falksen
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
— E. O. Wilson
However, I have an enormous desire to change his way of life and try to re-educate him with the ingredient called ardent affection.~Emily
— Pet Torres
He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.
— May Sarton
My father was an ardent socialist for many years.
— Leon Askin
Ardent
yet chill and formal,
how I ache
to tempt a chisel
as a sculptor. — Hilda Doolittle
yet chill and formal,
how I ache
to tempt a chisel
as a sculptor. — Hilda Doolittle
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
— Michel De Montaigne
Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
— Walter Savage Landor
Two ardent hearts against one poor little conscience
— Thomas Hardy
No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.
— Henry Petroski
I'm here now, I'm inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.
— Adi Shankar
Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.
— Norman Douglas
Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
— Alexandre Dumas
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
— Gary Hamel
A man will do astonishing things for a woman he is ardent about.
— Celeste Bradley
The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.
— Rumi
Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans. But I have some great friends that are NASCAR team owners.
— Mitt Romney
Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.
— Edwin Markham
A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.
— Rene Descartes
Mr. Pickwick was no sluggard, and he sprang like an ardent warrior from his tent-bedstead.
— Charles Dickens
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
— Robert Benchley
In truth, his most ardent fantasy was to hear her saying the three words he had repeated so often already. I love you.
— Cristiane Serruya
Sometimes sassy, a little bit nasty but always classy.
— The Ardent Rose
How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!
— Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
— Richard Cecil
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
— Barack Obama
Whether my days are cooled with calm or filled with fever's ardent taint, I have the same blue sky as God, I have the same God as the saint.
— Ridgely Torrence
The South, which is peopled with ardent and irascible beings, is becoming more irritated and alarmed.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.
— Saint Francis De Sales
The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples.
— Pablo Neruda
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
— Bayard Taylor
I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.
— Theodore Bikel
death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!
— Anne Fortier
I'm an ardent American Football fan.
— Don King
Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?
— Thomas Jefferson
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
— Diogenes
Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.
— Richard Steele
The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.
— Alphonsus Liguori
If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.
— Vittorio Alfieri
Celerity is tardiness when ardent desire urges.
— Publilius Syrus
An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.
— Mason Cooley