Quotes About Inscription

Littera Scripta Manet

I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller coming out in you all, you were afraid you'd decrease its value. You would have increased it for the present owner. (And possibly for the future owner. I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.)

El amor empieza en el momento en que una mujer inscribe su primera palabra en nuestra memoria poética.

The bottom line is we choose our epitaphs.

Santa Claus ran his finger across the rough parchment, lightly tracing the inscription below. "Charity unto others brings its own reward," he whispered.

Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.

The platinum Omega watch he gave me at breakfast on our first morning in London obscures the red line. The inscription still makes me swoon. AnastasiaYou are My MoreMy Love, My LifeChristian

The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical or composed of letters, but of their several forms, constitutions, parts and operations, which, aptly joined together, do make one word that doth express their natures.

All around him, in his house, everything consisted of fragments of beauty. Sometimes modest, sometimes valuable, these fragments combined to form a unique atmosphere of soft luminosity – the only one worthy of a cultured man, he thought. When he was twenty he had worn a ring with an inscription inside: This thing of Beauty is a guilt for ever (Monsieur

Ail hope abandon, ye who enter here.

We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

seal cylinder.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

The Latin inscription on the Pall Mall cigarette pack—"In Hoc Signo Vinces"—translated as "With this sign we shall conquer"—was a tentative means of homo identification

But Decebalus was not one to be cowed easily, and still showed his spirit by taunting the Romans. As Trajan reached the Iron Gates, Decebalus sent him a warning inscribed rather surprisingly, according to Dio Cassius, on 'a large mushroom'. This was probably a mushroom-shaped dish used for ritual purposes, and sadly not the only instance in history of diplomatic correspondence by fungi. The inscription advised Trajan to turn back and 'keep the peace'.22

Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?

Anyone who has character leaves a mark on another.

Some little part of themselves for someone in the future to discover. Maybe a thought. We were here. We built this. A reminder.

Some delightful inscriptions are found in second-hand books. One, the most famous of all, may be found in every bookshop in the nation, repeated in a thousand and one volumes with only a single change of phrase in each. It is this: '______, with love from Momma.

Life is a message scribbled in the dark. Anonymous.