Famous quotes containing the words barbara, lord, humbles and/or jacob:
““O mother, mother, make my bed!
O make it saft and narrow!
Since my love died for me today,
I’ll die for him tomorrow.””
—Unknown. Bonny Barbara Allan (l. 33–36)
“...the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 2:3.
“He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)