Quotes by Poets - Page 48

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.
John Milton
So free we seem so fettered fast we are!
Robert Browning
What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
William Shakespeare
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
Irving Layton
When we think we lead we most are led.
Lord Byron
All wish to be learned but no one is willing to pay the price.
Juvenal
And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all it knew.
Oliver Goldsmith
The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Achilles absent was Achilles still.
Homer
The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Kahlil Gibran
Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter some of them in hell.
Henry Burton
All things obey fixed laws.
Marcus Manilius
The law hath not been dead though it hath slept.
William Shakespeare
The first thing we do let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare
The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more they reward virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith
Possession is eleven points in the law.
Colley Cibber
And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
W.S. Gilbert
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Robert Frost
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
Martial
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
Hermann Hesse
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
Gertrude Stein
The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
Barten Holyday
It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals a kind of secret code.
William Stafford
Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Laws are the spider's webs which if anything small falls into them they ensnare it but large things break through and escape.
Solon
Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
Catullus
Rise with the lark and with the lark to bed.
James Hurdis
Hail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert That from Heaven or near it Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned or of dictionary-makers but is something arising out of the work needs ties joys affections tastes of long generations of humanity and has its bases broad and low close to the ground.
Walt Whitman
But for my own part it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare
Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth But has trouble enough of its own.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Labor conquers all things.
Homer
We know what we are but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
Miguel de Cervantes
One cannot know everything.
Horace
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
The learned is happy nature to explore the fool is happy that he knows no more.
Alexander Pope
Grace is given of God but knowledge is bought in the market.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
We should live and learn but by the time we've learned it's too late to live.
Carolyn Wells
A long long kiss a kiss of youth and love.
Lord Byron
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
Leigh Hunt
Jenny kissed me when we met Jumping from the chair she sat in Time you thief who love to get Sweets into your list put that in. Say I'm weary say I'm sad Say that health and wealth have missed me Say I'm growing old but add Jenny kissed me.
Leigh Hunt
See! the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another No sister flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: - What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Alexander Pope
God's mill grinds slow but sure.
George Herbert
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
Horace
Gin a body meets a body Comin' through the rye. Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?
James Drummond Burns
Come lay thy head upon my breast And I will kiss thee into rest.
Lord Byron