Quotes by Poets - Page 28

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.
Johann von Goethe
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Charles Lamb
Seize the hour.
Sophocles
Everyone once once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again.
Rainer Maria Rilke
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Kahlil Gibran
Live mindful of how brief your life is.
Horace
Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.
Horace
While we live let us live.
D.H. Lawrence
A day an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Joseph Addison
A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Youth troubles over eternity age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.
Dame Mary Gilmore
The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast. And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches toss'd.
Felicia D. Hemans
Praise the sea but keep on land.
George Herbert
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
Thomas Gray
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann von Goethe
The insolence of office.
William Shakespeare
The ear tends to be lazy craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected the eye on the other hand tends to be impatient craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W.H. Auden
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
An obstinate man does not hold opinions but they hold him.
Alexander Pope
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
Bernard Barton
One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one sees.
Charles Péguy
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life and are attached to the duties yet escape the harsher blows make acute and balanced observers.
George Meredith
Blessed be he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
Alexander Pope
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope
Thus let me live unseen unknown Thus unlamented let me die Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie.
Alexander Pope
I give the fight up let there be an end A privacy an obscure nook for me I want to be forgotten even by God.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
A life of nothing's nothing worth From that first nothing ere his birth To that last nothing under earth.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
How many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To mold a pin or fabricate a nail!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Thomas Gray
Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.
William Shakespeare
I'll take thy word for faith not ask thine oath Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
William Shakespeare
Let them obey that know not how to rule.
William Shakespeare
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat.
Edward Lear
Be noble in every thought And in every deed!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
William Shakespeare
Brave admiral say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone? The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! and on!"
Joaquin Miller
Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
Johann von Goethe
I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...
Erica Jong
I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.
Diane Glancy
All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.
Julia Ward Howe
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Robert Frost
What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
William Carlos Williams
How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!
Johann von Goethe
There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on one doesn't die and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace but it brings the dawn nearer.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
Endure and preserve yourselves for better things.
Virgil
Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.
Virgil
In the clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody but unbowed.
William E. Henley
Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.
Johann von Goethe
Never admit defeat!
Arthur Rimbaud
I bend but I do not break.
Jean de La Fontaine
It helps I think to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith to endure to help each other when we stumble or tire to weep and press on.
Mary Caroline Richards
Only yield when you must never "give up the ship " but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!"
Phoebe Cary
To bear is to conquer our fate.
Thomas Campbell
The first need of being is endurance to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.
Bliss Carman
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
John Dryden
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes