Browsing Topic Best Sportive Quotes

Confined to common life thy numbers flow,And neither soar too high nor sink too low;There strength and ease in graceful union meet,Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet;Yet powerful to abash the from of crimeAnd crimson error’s cheek with sportive rhyme.[Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri,Ore teres modico, pallentes radere moresDoctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]

Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur’s work.

Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt of things before my prime, still fly before the gale. … If after all these fearful fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained; yet in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.

Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness.