It is remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say. [ Prior ]

A very good or very bad poet is remarkable; but a middling one who can bear? [ Proverb ]

It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play. [ Hazlitt ]

Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there. [ Madame Necker ]

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally occasion ourselves. [ Beaconsfield ]

It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad. [ Johnson ]

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man. nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study. [ Theodore Parker ]

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved. [ Johnson ]

Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire. Lysander knew this was in part true, and refused the rich garments that the tyrant Dionysius proffered to his daughters, saying that they were fit only to make unhappy faces more remarkable. [ Zimmermann ]

Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood. [ Rogers ]

Throughout the pages of history we are struck with the fact that our remarkable men possessed mothers of uncommon talents for good or bad, and great energy of character; it would almost seem from this circumstance, that the impress of the mother is more frequently stamped on the boy, and that of the father upon the girl - we mean the mental intellectual impress, in distinction from the physical ones. Mothers will do well to remember that their impress is often stamped upon their sons. [ Helen Mar ]