Quotes by Poets - Page 12

Tomorrow is a satire on today And shows its weakness.
Edward Young
If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not speak then to me.
William Shakespeare
There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
Kathleen Norris
The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.
George Herbert
To say the least a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What is the city but the people?
William Shakespeare
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
William Blake
Brotherton So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart To praise the Lord with feast and song In thankfulness of heart.
Arthur Guiterman
Beggar that I am I am even poor in thanks.
William Shakespeare
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.
William Shakespeare
It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.
J. Petit-Senn
Words that weep and tears that speak.
Abraham Cowley
It is some relief to weep grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.
Ovid
For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
Thomas Campbell
Oh! would I were dead now Or up in my bed now To cover my head now And have a good cry!
Thomas Hood
Tears are Summer showers to the soul.
Alfred Austin
If you have tears prepare to shed them now.
William Shakespeare
Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.
Bret Harte
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran
First he wrought and afterwards he taught.
Geoffrey Chaucer
The finer impulse of our nature.
Friedrich von Schiller
Every man as he loveth quoth the good man when he kissed the cow.
John Heywood
In much of your talking thinking is half murdered.
Kahlil Gibran
Taste is the feminine of genius.
Edward FitzGerald
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
James Russell Lowell
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
They never taste who always drink They always talk who never think.
Matthew Prior
Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare
We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.
Charles Lamb
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
What so tedious as a twice-told tale?
Alexander Pope
But far more numerous was the herd of stfch Who think too little and who talk too much.
John Dryden
I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver.
William Shakespeare
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
Erica Jong
I cannot tell how the truth may be I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Walter Scott
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's bless'd.
Alexander Pope
A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour.
Lord Byron
Tush! These are trifles and mere old wives' tales.
Christopher Marlowe
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Henry Wotton
The pursuit of the perfect then is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold
All our geese are swans.
Henry Burton
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
William Shakespeare
Sweets to the sweet.
William Shakespeare
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
Ben Jonson
He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.
Oliver Goldsmith
Somebodys said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't " but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done and he did it.
Edgar A. Guest
Whence are thy beams O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty the stars hide themselves in the sky the moon cold and pale sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone.
James MacPherson
Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
Ovid
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
Robert Burns
To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare
One swallow alone does not make the summer.
Miguel de Cervantes
Make hay while the sun shines.
Miguel de Cervantes
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
There is some consolation in the fact that even though your dreams don't come true neither do your nightmares.
Richard Armour
Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to that alone Laughs at impossibilities And cries it shall be done.
Charles Wesley
Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like?
Jean Cocteau
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
Joseph Roux