Quotes by Poets - Page 44

Eve left Adam to meet the Devil in private.
Alexander Pope
Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?
Samuel Hoffenstein
All to myself I think of you Think of the things we used to do Think of the things we used to say Think of each happy bygone day Sometimes I sigh and sometimes I smile But I keep each olden golden while All to myself.
Wilbur D. Nesbit
We must always have old memories and young hopes.
Arsene Houssaye
I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We forget because we must And not because we will.
Matthew Arnold
What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
Louis Dudek
To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.
Thomas Campbell
English I remember I remember The house where I was born The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn He never came a wink too soon Nor brought too long a day But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!
Thomas Hood
Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture the additional act.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Memory of all the powers of the mind is the most delicate and frail.
Ben Jonson
A man must get a thing before he can forget it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson
There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.
C. Day Lewis
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We only part to meet again.
John Gay
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
Juvenal
Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence else who could bear it?
Nicholas Rowe
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Franklin Pierce Adams
Most things get better by themselves. Most things in fact are better by morning.
Lewis Thomas
So long as the body is affected through the mind no audacious device even of the most manifestly dishonest character can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
Alexander Pope
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
John Donne
To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
Charles Lamb
Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once but when they came they answered as they took their fees 'There is no cure for this disease.'
Hilaire Belloc
What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease.
George Dennison Prentice
My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry no longer' 'I'm sorry not yet.'
W.H. Auden
Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
John Finley
One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.
Kenneth Koch
Be content with what you are and wish not change not dread your last day not long for it.
Martial
Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Heinrich Heine
Marriages are made in Heaven.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
If thou wouldst marry wisely marry thine equal.
Ovid
Men are April when they woo December when they wed maids are May when they are maids but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
Henrik Ibsen
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Marry'd in hast we may repent at leisure.
William Congreve
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Kahlil Gibran
Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance however passionate.
W.H. Auden
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist a wonderful living side by side can grow up if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Marriage: a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it.
Kathleen Norris
Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Husband and wife come to look alike at last.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
Erica Jong
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me for she never speaks well of me herself nor suffers anybody else to rail at me.
William Congreve
Know then thyself presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope
Man's the bad child of the universe.
James Oppenheim
He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
Lord Byron
They asked Lucman the fabulist From whom did you learn manners? He answered: From the unmannerly.
Sadi
He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no nor woman neidier though by your smiling you seem to say so.
William Shakespeare
His life was gentle and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world This was a man!
William Shakespeare
Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
James Drummond Burns
His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.
John Dryden
Every man is a volume if you know how to read them.
William Ellery Channing
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith