There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that to me resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning but wisdom is like the sun.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears so joined that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Art has two constant two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art a scientific theory a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing the sage in much and God in everything.