Quotes by Poets - Page 61

Fortune and Love befriend the bold.
Ovid
O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle.
William Shakespeare
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.
William Shakespeare
Frailty thy name is woman!
William Shakespeare
Ye sons of France awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children wives and grandsires hoary Behold their tears and hear their cries!
Rouget de Lisle
To err is human to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope
No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect.
Antoinette Deshouliere
Good to forgive Best to forget.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Be satisfied and pleased with what thou art Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part Enjoy the present hour be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish the approaches of the last.
Martial
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover only the clover isn't good enough.
Bertolt Brecht
It made me gladsome to be getting some education it being like a big window opening.
Mary Webb
We are never content with our lot.
Jean de La Fontaine
No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear But grateful take the good I find The best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
William Shakespeare
Be content with what thou hast received and smooth thy frowning forehead.
Hafez
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
Nicolas Boileau
One well-cultivated talent deepened and enlarged is worth one hundred shallow faculties.
William Matthews
If thou covetest riches ask not but for contentment which is an immense treasure.
Sa'di
My crown is called content a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare
What strange perversity is it that induces a man to set his heart on doing those things which he has not succeeded in and makes him slight those in which his achievement has been respectable.
Gamaliel Bradford
My friends are my estate.
Emily Dickinson
True affluence is not needing anything.
Gary Snyder
He is well paid that is well satisfied.
William Shakespeare
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Sara Teasdale
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
Alexander Smith
The covetous man is always poor.
Claudian
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.
William Shenstone
He is not rich that possesses much but he that covets no more and he is not poor that enjoys little but he that wants too much.
Francis Beaumont
This only grant me that my means may lie too low for envy for contempt too high.
Abraham Cowley
There is satiety in all things in sleep and love-making in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.
Homer
Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.
Horace
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.
Lucretius
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Robert Herrick
Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.
Walt Whitman
Enough is as good as a feast.
John Heywood
Nothing in excess.
Solon
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
Elizabeth Carter
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
Emily Dickinson
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
George Santayana
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand they strain into the future hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
Pindar
Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
J. Petit-Senn
Happy thou art not for what thou hast not still thou striv'est to get and what thou hast forget'est.
William Shakespeare
What you really value is what you miss not what you have.
Jorge Luis Borges
The end of pain we take as happiness.
Giacomo Leopardi
You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.
Giacomo Leopardi
Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
Margaret Junkin Preston
Few love what they may have.
Ovid
It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.
Bertolt Brecht
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
Health is the vital principle of bliss.
James Thomson
Better to suffer than to die.
Jean de La Fontaine
Happy the man who can count his sufferings.
Ovid
A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.
Joseph Addison
Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun to have lived light in the spring to have loved to have thought to have done?
Matthew Arnold
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!
Don Marquis
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
Georges Duhamel