Quotes by Poets - Page 27

Stiff in opinion always in the wrong.
John Dryden
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
James Russell Lowell
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
James Russell Lowell
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.
William Butler Yeats
You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.
W.S. Gilbert
I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
Time is a wealth of change but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
Rabindranath Tagore
Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.
Ovid
Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
Johann von Goethe
Time is the subtle thief of youth.
John Milton
Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
Carl Sandburg
Time ... is the life of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time is the devourer of all things.
Ovid
Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
William Carlos Williams
Time itself is an element.
Johann von Goethe
Time is the king of men.
William Shakespeare
Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.
Charles Baudelaire
Time is eternity begun.
James Montgomery
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down we don't move today is today always is today.
Octavio Paz
A little space of time before time expires a little way of breath.
Algernon Swinburne
One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.
James Russell Lowell
Nothing is more powerful than habit.
Ovid
Come what may time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare
To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.
Raymond Radiguet
Anyone can carry his burden however hard until nightfall. Anyone can do his work however hard for one day. Anyone can live sweetly patiently lovingly purely till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana
The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.
George Moore
And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Each day and the living of it has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
May Sarton
Friends I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.
Don Marquis
You have not lived a perfect day even though you have earned your money unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
Ruth Smeltzer
And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
If every day I dare to remember that I am here on loan that this house this hillside these minutes are all leased to me not given I will never despair.
Erica Jong
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T.S Eliot
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action to all eternity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.
John Dryden
A man should hear a little music read a little poetry and see a fine picture every day of his life in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann von Goethe
I have resolved that from this day on I will do all the business I can honestly have all the fun I can reasonably do all the good I can willingly and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Each day provides its own gifts.
Martial
All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today.
Phoebe Cary
Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
Alphonse de Lamartine
Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end the more tempting the minute.
Theodore Fontane
Ah! the clock is always slow it is later than you think.
Robert W. Service
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.
Johann von Goethe
An earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golden account.
William Ellery Channing
Time wasted is a theft from God.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Still on it creeps Each little moment at another's heels Till hours days years and ages are made up Of such small parts as these and men look back Worn and bewilder'd wondering how it is.
Joanna Baillie
I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare
The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
William Shakespeare
One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
Sir Walter Scott
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
Alexander Smith
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God to respect Time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime but spare the right-it holds my golden time!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Kahlil Gibran
He possesses dominion over himself and is happy who can every day say "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds or cheer it with clear sunshine he will not however render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.
Horace
Each day each hour an entire life.
Juan Ramón Jiménez