Quotes by Poets - Page 56

When a man has lost all happiness he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles
Happiness is the only sanction in life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
Emily Dickinson
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is rightly more important that he eat than that he philosophize.
W.H. Auden
The will of man is his happiness.
Friedrich von Schiller
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then To those who have learned to do without it And to them only.
Don Marquis
True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy but never an interested person who was unhappy.
A.C. Benson
I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.
George Santayana
It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
Charles Péguy
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Charles Lamb
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
Joseph Addison
His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.
Giovanni Boccaccio
The gnarled fidelity of an old habit.
Rainer Maria Rilke
When you are accustomed to anything you are estranged from it.
George Cabot Lodge
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
William Shakespeare
She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
Gertrude Stein
There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
George Santayana
Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana
It is well to lie fallow for a while.
Martin F. Tupper
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths but he has not been able to destroy them.
Octavio Paz
Every one can master a grief but he that has it.
William Shakespeare
What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief.
William Shakespeare
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
William Shakespeare
Athens the eye of Greece mother of arts And eloquence.
John Milton
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
Eliza Cook
He who is greedy is always in want.
Horace
We risk all in being too greedy.
Jean de La Fontaine
Grief is itself a med'cine.
William Cowper
The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.
Sa'di
The glory that was Greece.
Edgar Allan Poe
None think the great unhappy but the great.
Edward Young
Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal though no more though fallen great!
Lord Byron
The biggest dog has been a pup.
Joaquin Miller
Some are born great some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
William Shakespeare
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
T.S Eliot
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
A great ship asks deep water.
George Herbert
The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
Henry Taylor
Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.
Stephen Spender
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
Walter Savage Landor
The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today.
Phoebe Cary
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dust into dust and under dust to lie Sans wine sans song sans singer and - sans end.
Omar Khayyám
Is but the threshold of eternity.
Robert Southey
Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
Thomas Gray
He does it with a better grace but I do it more natural.
William Shakespeare
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Friedrich von Schiller
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
George Santayana
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Charles Péguy
States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay.
Walter Savage Landor
Let the greater part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest.
Francis Quarles
Foul whisperings are abroad.
William Shakespeare
Since good the more Communicated more abundant grows.
John Milton
The crest and crowning of all good Life's final star is Brotherhood.
Edwin Markham