Quotes by Poets - Page 45

There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him and then broke the mould.
Ariosto
What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.
Francis Quarles
A man's a man for a' that!
James Drummond Burns
Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
Lord Byron
A minority may be right a majority is always wrong.
Henrik Ibsen
Who dares think one thing and another tell My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Homer
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright - But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.'
Lord Alfred Tennyson
A good memory is needed once we have lied.
Corneille
Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.
Emily Dickinson
And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.
Lord Byron
Sweet and low sweet and low Wind of the western sea Low low breathe and blow Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go Come from the dying moon and blow Blow him again to me While my little one while my pretty one sleeps.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Some folk want their luck buttered.
Thomas Hardy
As ill-luck would have it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
Oliver Goldsmith
Luck is not chance it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
Sophocles
They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.
Matthew Arnold
Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.
James Russell Lowell
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.
John Dryden
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.
Johann von Goethe
So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure without him live no life.
John Milton
Love must have wings to fly away from love And to fly back again.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known So I turn the leaves of Fancy till in shadowy design I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine.
James Whitcomb Riley
The hours I spent with thee dear heart Are as a string of pearls to me I could them over every one apart My rosary my rosary.
Robert Cameron Rogers
Everybody in love is blind.
Propertius
Love sought is good but given unsought is better.
William Shakespeare
Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them - but not for love.
William Shakespeare
Ay me! for aught that I ever could read Could ever hear by tale or history The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
Give me my Romeo and when he shall die. Take him and cut him out in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
William Shakespeare
But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
George Moore
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
Walter Scott
Love in a hut with water and a crust Is - Love forgive us! - cinders ashes dust.
John Keats
Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell? Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway far Before you agonize them in farewell?
Laurence Hope
Young men wish: love money and health. One day they'll say: health money and love.
Paul Geraldy
Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
Rémy de Gourmont
I could not love thee dear so much Loved I not honour more.
Richard Lovelace
He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all.
Richard Monckton Milnes
You say to me-ward's your affection's strong Pray love me little so you love me long.
Robert Herrick
Come live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys groves or hills or fields Or woods and steepy mountains yield.
Christopher Marlowe
unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home . . . lovers alone wear sunlight.
E.E. Cummings
All thoughts all passions all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed his sacred flame.
Hartley Coleridge
Oh my luve's like a red red rose That's newly sprung in June Oh my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune.
James Drummond Burns
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart 'Tis woman's whole existence.
Lord Byron
Love all love of other sights controls. And makes one little room an everywhere.
John Donne
If yet I have not all thy love love Dear I shall never have it all.
John Donne
Love with men is not a sentiment but an idea.
Mme. de Girardin
There's no love lost between us.
Miguel de Cervantes
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned.
William Congreve
And if I loved you Wednesday well what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
If you want to be loved be lovable.
Ovid
You've got to love what's lovable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
Robert Frost
Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye that's all we shall know for truth before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats
Love lives on propinquity but dies on contact.
Thomas Hardy
No love no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
François Mauriac
Love consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
Alexander Pope
The porcupine whom one must handle gloved may be respected but is never loved.
Arthur Guiterman
The loving are the daring.
Bayard Taylor
I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.
John Donne
What we call love is the desire to awaken and to keep awake in another's body heart and mind the responsibility of flattering in our place the self of which we are not very certain.
Paul Geraldy