Quotes by Poets - Page 52

Hope is an echo hope ties itself yonder yonder.
Carl Sandburg
He who does not hope to win has already lost.
Jose Joaquin Olmedo
Wonder ... music heard in the heart is voiceless.
Rosemary Dobson
At first we hope too much later on not enough.
Joseph Roux
Hope! of all ills that men endure The only cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley
Hope springs eternal in the human breast Man never is but always to be blest.
Alexander Pope
Hope is the poor man's bread.
George Herbert
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Alexander Pope
I could not love thee dear so much Loved I not honor more.
Richard Lovelace
Ay sir to be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
William Shakespeare
For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all all honourable men.
William Shakespeare
Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word.
William Shakespeare
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Stephen Vincent Benét
Honesty's praised then left to freeze.
Juvenal
Every man has his fault and honesty is his.
William Shakespeare
Honesty is the best policy.
Miguel de Cervantes
Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
Lord Byron
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.
William Wordsworth
Every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect only once in this way and never again.
Hermann Hesse
Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.
Charles Lamb
Man is an abyss and I turn giddy when I look down into it.
Georg Büchner
Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
George Santayana
Know then thyself presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope
Man will ever stand in need of man.
Theocritus
Limited in his nature infinite in his desires man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither ripeness is all.
William Shakespeare
People are too durable that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves they last too long.
Bertolt Brecht
A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.
George Santayana
Men are cruel but man is kind.
Rabindranath Tagore
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God made him and therefore let him pass for a man.
William Shakespeare
Darwinian Man though well-behaved At best is only a monkey shaved!
W.S. Gilbert
I am mortal born to love and to suffer.
Friedrich Hölderlin
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
Robert Browning
Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.
Robert Burns
The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann Hesse
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore
The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
Friedrich von Schlegel
Peace and rest at length have come All the day's long toil is past And each heart is whispering "Home Home at last!"
Thomas Hood
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Dylan Thomas
The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
Friedrich von Schiller
I have no history but the length of my bones.
Robin Skelton
Give the historians something to write about.
Propertius
War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy
The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.
T.S Eliot
History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo Emerson A vast Mississippi of falsehood - Matthew Arnold A confused heap of facts - Lord Chesterfield A cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man -
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
W.H. Auden
History is the devil's scripture.
Lord Byron
When the heroes go off the stage the clowns come on.
Heinrich Heine
Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.
Randall Jarrell
The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee A clover anytime to him Is aristocracy.
Emily Dickinson
With him for a sire and her for a dam What should I be but just what I am?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.
Felicia D. Hemans
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
John Ciardi
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.
Thomas Overbury
The child is father to the man.
William Wordsworth
Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes