Quotes by Poets - Page 6

There is a tide in the affairs of women Which taken at the flood leads - God knows where.
Lord Byron
Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice Her heart be sure is not of ice And one refusal no rebuff.
Lord Byron
We may our ends by our beginnings know.
Sir John Denham
Never wedding ever wooing Still a lovelorn heart pursuing Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing Wed or cease to woo.
Thomas Campbell
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese
A hard beginning makes a good ending.
John Heywood
There is no such thing as a long piece of work except one that you dare not start.
Charles Baudelaire
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Edward Young
He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin.
Horace
Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear the best way is to do them in their proper time.
Ida Scott Taylor
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Sir Walter Scott
Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.
Friedrich von Schiller
Such Polly are your sex - part truth part fiction Some thought much whim and all contradiction.
Richard Savage
She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament.
William Wordsworth
What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it.
Johann von Goethe
Age cannot wither her nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare
Fraily thy name is woman!
William Shakespeare
O wild dark flower of woman Deep rose of my desire An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.
C. G. D. Roberts
O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain coy and hard to please And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou!
Walter Scott
In the beginning said a Persian poet - Allah took a rose a lily a dove a serpent a little honey a Dead Sea apple and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram - it was a woman.
William Sharp
Grace was in all her steps heaven in her eye In every gesture dignity and love.
John Milton
Offend her and she knows not to forgive Oblige her and she'll hate you while you live.
Alexander Pope
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
Alexander Pope
Earth's noblest thing a Woman perfected.
James Russell Lowell
Most men who run down women are running down one woman only.
Rémy de Gourmont
Man has his will - but woman has her way.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
Abraham Cowley
In her first passion woman loves her lover In all the others all she loves is love.
Lord Byron
A woman is like your shadow follow her she flies fly from her she follows.
Sebastien Chamfort
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
Whether they give or refuse women are glad to have been asked.
Ovid
What will not woman gentle woman dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Robert Southey
Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem and to be given away by a novel.
John Keats
Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety other women cloy the appetites they feed but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
William Shakespeare
Woman is at once apple and serpent.
Heinrich Heine
A modest woman dressed out in all her finery is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Oliver Goldsmith
What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.
Ovid
A woman is always buying something.
Ovid
A woman the more careful she is about her face is commonly the more careless about her house.
Ben Jonson
No woman marries for money they are all clever enough before marrying a millionaire to fall in love with him first.
Cesare Pavese
Wit has truth in it wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Dorothy Parker
True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd.
Alexander Pope
True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed.
Alexander Pope
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole Its body brevity and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
Great men may jest with saints 'tis wit in them But in the less foul profanation.
William Shakespeare
The well of true wit is truth itself.
George Meredith
I wish I knew the good of wishing.
Henry S. Leigh
Thy wish was father to that thought.
William Shakespeare
In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
Homer
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one no less wise to balance it.
George Santayana
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake
Night is the mother of counsels.
George Herbert
Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
James Russell Lowell
The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
James Russell Lowell
The road to wisdom? Well it's plain And simple to express: Err And err And err again But less And less And less.
Piet Hein
Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.
Hermann Hesse
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phaedrus