Quotes by Poets - Page 21

Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe
I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
Charles Lamb
The public! the public! How many fools does it take to make up a public?
Sebastien Chamfort
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime.
W.S. Gilbert
Fear not but trust in Providence Wherever thou may'st be.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
He that doth the ravens feed. Yea providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!
William Shakespeare
There is a divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them how we will.
William Shakespeare
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Joseph Addison
Dine on little and sup on less.
Miguel de Cervantes
If you strike a thorn or rose Keep a-goin! If it hails or if it snows Keep a-goin! 'Tain't no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line Bait your hook an' keep on tryin'. Keep a-goin!
Frank L. Stanton
Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare
That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.
René Char
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Bertolt Brecht
Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.
James Dickey
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
Progress might have been all right once but it's gone on too long.
Ogden Nash
And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat that is progress.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.
George Santayana
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods and know nothing about accomplishments!
Joanna Baillie
In pride in reas'ning pride our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes Men would be angels angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
They are proud in humility proud in that they are not proud.
Henry Burton
In durance vile here must I wake and weep And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
James Drummond Burns
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
James Russell Lowell
Stone walls do not a prison make Nor iron bars a cage Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.
Richard Lovelace
Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeing meteor a fast flying cloud A flash of the lightning a break of the wave Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
William Knox
You must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet or trust me you haven't a chance.
W.S. Gilbert
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have taught you my dear flock for above thirty years how to live and I will show you in a very short time how to die.
George Sandys
Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
William Shakespeare
But in his duty prompt at every call He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.
Oliver Goldsmith
If I am right Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach my heart To find that better way!
Alexander Pope
They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!
James Drummond Burns
God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.
John Masefield
Do as we say and not as we do.
Giovanni Boccaccio
Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving one to anther.
Robert Louis Stevenson
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith
Restraining prayer we cease to fight Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
William Cowper
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith
Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
John Donne
Lord till I reach that blissful shore No privilege so dear shall be As thus my inmost soul to pour In prayer to thee.
Charlotte Elliott
I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
James Russell Lowell
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey
Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.
Thomas Watson
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
Jean Ingelow
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
Thomas Watson
We ignorant of ourselves beg often our own harms which the wise powers deny us for our good.
William Shakespeare
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face. A gauntlet with a gift in't.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Who rises from prayer a better man his prayer is answered.
George Meredith
A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
Sa'di
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles
Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
George Santayana
Take my will and make it Thine It shall be no longer mine Take my heart it is Thine own It shall be Thy royal throne.
Frances Ridley Havergal
What a friend we have in Jesus All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in Prayer! Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged Take it to the Lord in prayer. Are we weak and heavy laden Cumbered with a load of care? Precious Savior still our refuge Take it to the Lord in prayer. O what peace we often forfeit O what needless pain we bear All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer!
Joseph Scriven
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
Charles Hamilton Aide