Top Flourishes Quotes
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
Charles Caleb Colton
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.
David K. Shipler
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Henry Ellis
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
Alfred North Whitehead
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Emile M. Cioran
Katherine Graham 
Thomas Bulfinch 
James Madison 
Havelock Ellis 
William Ralph Inge 
John Tillotson All Flourishes Quotes
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
Charles Caleb Colton 
58% of people like this quote
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.
David K. Shipler
57% of people like this quote
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Henry Ellis
57% of people like this quote
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
Alfred North Whitehead
56% of people like this quote
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Emile M. Cioran
55% of people like this quote
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
William Ralph Inge
53% of people like this quote
But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.
Hesiod
53% of people like this quote
There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
Katherine Graham
52% of people like this quote
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
John Tillotson
51% of people like this quote