Quotes by Poets - Page 51

Extreme busyness whether at school or college kirk or market is a symptom of deficient vitality and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
An idea is a feat of association and the height of it is a good metaphor.
Robert Frost
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
Stanislaw Lec
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
George Santayana
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy the only evil that walks invisible.
John Milton
As the husband is the wife is.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
William Shakespeare
Men are April when they woo December when they wed.
William Shakespeare
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
William Shakespeare
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
Charles Lamb
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
Robert Frost
Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
Christian Morgenstern
Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.
Mark Van Doren
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Charles Lamb
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash
After all there is but one race - humanity.
George Moore
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
Every human heart is human.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He held his seat a friend to human race.
Homer
Wen you see a man in woe Walk right up and say "hullo." Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do " "How's the world a-usin' you?"
Sam Walter Foss
Oh God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!
Thomas Hood
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation a mental or physical barter to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
W.H. Auden
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
George Dennison Prentice
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity which is what we express by the word Good Breeding.
Joseph Addison
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
Alexander Pope
For I who hold sage Homer's rule the best Welcome the coming speed the going guest.
Alexander Pope
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.
Richard Hovey
Let me live in my house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.
Sam Walter Foss
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
William Shakespeare
The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
Walter Scott
Youth fades love droops the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
Margaret Atwood
I always entertain great hopes.
Robert Frost
The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
Daniel Berrigan
In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope for the soft marrow abi-deth in the hard bone.
Hafez
We live on the leash of our senses.
Diane Ackerman
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Grass grows at last above all graves.
Julia Dorr
True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes Gods and meaner creatures kings.
William Shakespeare
Hope that star of life's tremulous ocean.
Paul Moon James
Have hope. Though clouds environs now And gladness hides her face in scorn Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Hope like the gleaming taper's light adorns and cheers our way And still as darker grows the night emits a lighter ray.
Oliver Goldsmith
Never despair.
Horace
To hope is to enjoy.
Jacques Delille
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
Sir Walter Scott
Where no hope is left is left no fear.
John Milton
Stars will blossom in the darkness Violets bloom beneath the snow.
Julia Dorr
If winter comes can spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
Johann von Goethe
Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.
John Armstrong
Hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Matthew Prior
No hope no action.
Peter Levi
The miserable have no medicine but hope.
William Shakespeare
Hope! Of all the ills that men endure the only cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley
Our greatest good and what we least can spare is hope.
John Armstrong