Quotes by Poets - Page 15

Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes The Bores and the Bored.
Lord Byron
Whatever people may say the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis the former know how to act the latter become uncouth brutes.
Cesare Pavese
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasm tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessor and to posterity.
Arthur Chapman
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.
Ebenezer Elliott
But where are the snows of yesteryear?
Francois Villon
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
Laurence Durrell
There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.
Miguel de Cervantes
Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Sebastien Chamfort
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Lord Byron
It's full of worth and goodness too with manly kindness blent It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.
Wilbur D. Nesbit
No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.
George Moore
To sleep! perchance to dream ay there's the rub For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause.
William Shakespeare
O sleep O gentle sleep Nature's soft nurse.
William Shakespeare
Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!
John Keats
Over my slumber your loving watch keep - Rock me to sleep mother rock me to sleep.
Elizabeth Akers Allen
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.
George Herbert
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
James Russell Lowell
Sleep rest of nature O sleep most gentle of the divinities peace of the soul thou at whose presence care disappears who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments and makest them strong again for labour!
Ovid
Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
Ralph Hodgson
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care The death of each day's life sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds great nature's second course Chief nourisher in life's feast.
William Shakespeare
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
Miguel de Cervantes
To all to each a fair goodnight And pleasing dreams and slumbers light.
Walter Scott
And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die Lift not your hands to it for help - for it As impotently moves as you or I.
Omar Khayyám
I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning.
William Shakespeare
I am disgrac'd impeach'd and baffled here - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear.
William Shakespeare
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Kahlil Gibran
So many laws argue so many sins.
John Milton
0 thou who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the road I was to wander in Thou wilt not with predestin'd evil round Enmesh and then impute my fall to sin.
Omar Khayyám
The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
Charles Péguy
The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.
Walt Whitman
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Sidney Lanier
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
God made man simple but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
Johann von Goethe
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
James Russell Lowell
Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you.
John Boyle O'Reilly
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
William Shakespeare
A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped for everything cannot be equally considered in a word he must be able to simplify his duties his business and his life.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
Henry Burton
Ships that pass in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ships are but boards sailors but men.
William Shakespeare
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
Miguel de Cervantes
Coming events cast their shadows before.
Thomas Campbell
O shame! Where is they blush?
William Shakespeare
He was not of an age but for all time!
Ben Jonson
Amoebas at the start were not complex -They tore themselves apart and started sex.
Arthur Guiterman
My heart is ever at your service.
William Shakespeare
Servant of God well done.
John Milton
That man who lives for self alone Lives for the meanest mortal known.
Joaquin Miller
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
Leigh Hunt
For they can conquer who believe they can.
Virgil
I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul.
William E. Henley
No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.
William Ellery Channing
Help yourself and heaven will help you.
Jean de La Fontaine
I am a moonbeam free to go whenever I choose.
Marina Tsvetaeva
To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble dependence and manly independence humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
William Wordsworth
God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.
Josiah G. Holland