Quotes by Poets - Page 31

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
Giacomo Leopardi
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.
Lord Byron
The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.
Andrei Voznesensky
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.
T.S Eliot
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
Juvenal
All reformers are bachelors.
George Moore
Dismiss the old horse in good time lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.
Horace
You can't put off being young until you retire.
Philip Larkin
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
Thomas Gray
Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
William Cowper
That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.
Owen Meredith
God will pardon me. It's his business.
Heinrich Heine
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
William Shakespeare
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Apology - a desperate habit and one that is rarely cured.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
He that hath no cross deserves no crown.
Francis Quarles
One religion is as true as another.
Henry Burton
He's half absolv'd Who has confess'd.
Matthew Prior
There are people who are very resourceful At being remorseful And who apparently feel that the best way to make friends Is to do something terrible and then make amends.
Ogden Nash
Religion if in heavenly truths attired Needs only to be seen to be admired.
William Cowper
There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
Erica Jong
The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.
Elizabeth Bibesco
There is a good deal too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened.
Thomas Hardy
My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana
Don't be agnostic - be something.
Robert Frost
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers got angry scolded God were egotistical or testy or impatient in their turns made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.
Phyllis McGinley
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.
Heinrich Heine
Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug or throw themselves down before they always did they always will and if you don't make it of wood you must make it of words.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
Heinrich Heine
Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers he looks for others abroad.
Max Jacob
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
Kingsley Amis
A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything knows how little he knows.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
Robert Frost
And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts! His sisters and his cousins Whom he reckons up by dozens And his aunts!
W.S. Gilbert
Whatever with the past has gone the best is always yet to come.
Lucy Larcom
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!
Don Marquis
There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
Dante Alighieri
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The profits of good luck are perishable if you build on fortune you build on sand the more advancement you achieve the more dangers you run.
Marquis de Racan
An indefinable something is to be done in a way nobody knows how at a time nobody knows when that will accomplish nobody knows what.
Thomas B. Read
What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap the wind of accident will collect in one breath.
J. C. F. von Schiller
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte
Chance works for us when we are good captains.
George Meredith
The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Alexander Pope
Reason can in general do more than blind force.
Gallus
You know my friends with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house Divorced old barren reason from my bed And took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Omar Khayyám
He who will not reason is a bigot he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not is a slave.
William Drummond
Every why hath a wherefore.
William Shakespeare
I have no other but a woman's reason. I think him so because I think him so.
William Shakespeare
Reason is also choice.
John Milton
Reason is an emotion for the sexless.
Heathcote Williams
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this that the beast does but know but the man knows that he knows.
John Donne
We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound Tokens of love and hate black sorcery stones.
Stephen Vincent Benét
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Reason is God's gift but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
Cardinal Newman
Men expect too much do too little.
Allen Tate