Quotes by Poets - Page 26

Fear betrays unworthy souls.
Virgil
Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.
Sa'di
Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.
Gertrude Stein
Fear is the start of wisdom.
Miguel de Unamuno
Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love as if to keep it warm.
William Wordsworth
Why should a man fear since chance is all in all for him and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can unthinking.
Sophocles
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
Audre Lorde
To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!
Jean de La Fontaine
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
May Sarton
Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us.
Alice Duer Miller
The brave man is not he who feels no fear For that were stupid and irrational But he whose noble soul its fear subdues And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Joanna Baillie
Envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong
There is no greater glory than love nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
Lope de Vega
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence every one must take an equal portion most people would be content to take their own and depart.
Solon
If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Max Ehrmann
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
Sa'di
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.
Joseph Roux
Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Wanting to change to improve a person's situation means offering him for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.
Rainer Maria Rilke
We turn not older with years but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Emily Dickinson
Pale death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
Horace
The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure.
Ogden Nash
My crown is called content a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare
There is no armour against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.
James Shirley
Men would be angels angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
If every man's internal care Were written on his brow How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?
Pietro Metastasio
If solid happiness we prize within our breast this jewel lies And they are fools who roam the world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our bliss must flow And that dear hut-our home.
Nathaniel Cotton
Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
Antonio Machado
Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.
Charles Baudelaire
In all climates under all skies man's happiness is always somewhere else.
Giacomo Leopardi
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
Horace
When a man's busy leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.
Robert Browning
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone
Every stage of life has its troubles and no man is content with his own age.
Ausonius
No one is content with his own lot.
Horace
We love in others what we lack ourselves and would be everything but what we are.
R. H. Stoddard
When every blessed thing you have is made of silver or of gold you long for simple pewter.
W.S. Gilbert
Order is Heaven's first law.
Alexander Pope
Utter originality is of course out of the question.
Ezra Pound
Riding hard for glory.
Irving Layton
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
T.S Eliot
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
William Blake
I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes.
W.S. Gilbert
There is a budding morrow in midnight.
John Keats
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
Frederick Langbridge
A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.
William Wordsworth
When things come to the worst they generally mend.
Susanna Moodie
Unless a man has trained himself for his chance the chance will only make him ridiculous.
William Matthews
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.
William Shakespeare
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
Sebastien Chamfort
Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
Ovid
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russell Lowell