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Government is a gang of thieves writ large.
— Murray Rothbard
If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness.
— Martin Luther
A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection;And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.
— William James
Kids are anarchy writ large.
— Jeffrey Kluger
The world is a great poem, and the world'sThe words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts. — Philip James Bailey
we rescue our tears from the seasecure them by writ — M. NourbeSe Philip
Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.
— Henry David Thoreau
I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
— George R R Martin
I always carry the book of Holy Writ ... and something to read ...
— Elizabeth Peters
HERE LIES ONE WHOSE NAME WAS WRIT IN WATER
— Dan Simmons
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
— Alexander Pope
Your name may be 'writ in water', but for now, you have the great advantage of being a wave that can think.
— D.J. MacLennan
That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it. — Winifred Mary Letts
And what is writ is writ! Would it were worthier!
— Lord Byron
Nowhere is it writ that anthropoid apes should understand reality.
— Terence McKenna
To John Keats Whose Name Was Writ in Eternity
— Dan Simmons
Feeling normal for any extended period of time raises hopes that turn out, almost invariably, to be writ on water.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
The prison is the state writ small.
— Mason Cooley
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
— Stephen Covey
The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".
— George Henry Lewes
Challenge every writ, and let it not be said of you, I walked a path but never left an imprint.
— Jeffrey Archer
The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.
— William Shakespeare
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.
— Robert J. Sawyer
How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'
— Julian Huxley
I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South
— Lord Byron
Here lies one whose name was writ on water.
— John Keats
Tantarrara! the joyous Book of SpringLies open, writ in blossoms. — William Allingham
My life was writ in red, in blood and wine.
— George R R Martin
The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.
— Joseph Addison
Whenever she came across lines she liked, she'd mark them in pencil and commit them to memory as if they were Holy Writ.
— Haruki Murakami
Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.
— Cormac McCarthy
War is murder writ large.
— Carl Sagan
No believing Christian can be coerced beyond Holy Writ
— Martin Luther
God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it.
— Pope Paul III
New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.
— John Milton
Politics is ethics writ large.
— Brent Weeks
All law is writ in a seed.
— Cormac McCarthy
Tomes / Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.
— Adrian Mitchell
I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.
— Jacob K. Javits
Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.
— Theodore Parker
...the history of all love is writ with one pen.
— William Hope Hodgson
A word writ doon can hang a man
— Terry Pratchett
The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.
— Henry Fielding
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.
— Thomas Ken
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
— Swami Vivekananda
The moving hand once having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line.
— Omar Khayyam
And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. — William Shakespeare
Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution ... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.
— William Hamilton
Human culture is early human cooperation writ large.
— Michael Tomasello
The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.
— Marilynne Robinson
The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
— Murray Rothbard
My life has been the poem I could have writBut I could not both live and utter it. — Henry David Thoreau
For you are abstract,making no mistake,
slurring no word
in the rhythm you make,
the poem,
writ in the air. — Hilda Doolittle
Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone
— Jonathan Lethem
Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.
— Patti Smith
What's writ is what's read, yet the meaning is gone, since context is what gives each quote its own home.
— Will Advise
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
— William Shakespeare