Quotes by Poets - Page 62

Life is the first gift love is the second and understanding the third.
Marge Piercy
Too happy would you be did ye but know your own advantages!
Virgil
Let me embrace thee sour adversity for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.
Robert Nathan
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
Ruth Ann Schabacker
The difficulties hardships and trials of life the obstacles ... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly and teach self-reliance.
William Matthews
Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.
Joseph Addison
Yes there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran
Good heavens of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
James Russell Lowell
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
Miguel de Cervantes
The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The cut worm forgives the plow.
William Blake
How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope
God will forgive me that is His business.
Heinrich Heine
God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee O God!
Heinrich Heine
Forgiveness is the most tender part of love.
John Sheffield
Anger as soon as fed is dead 'tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson
Anger is a short madness.
Horace
If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself.
Hermann Hesse
The enslaver is enslaved the hater harmed.
Marianne Moore
Hate is all a lie there is no truth in hate.
Kathleen Norris
Hatred is a death wish for the hated not a life wish for anything else.
Audre Lorde
One may have been a fool but there's no foolishness like being bitter.
Kathleen Norris
The world forgetting by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope
Look ere thou leap see ere thou go.
Thomas Tusser
Lord what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.
Miguel de Cervantes
Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
Zoe Akins
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
You men think old men are fools but old men know young men are the fools.
George Chapman
The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.
James Russell Lowell
A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
Nicolas Boileau
The fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
A fool's bolt is soon shot.
William Shakespeare
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller
Every inch that is not fool is rogue.
John Dryden
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
William Cowper
Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Charles Lamb
If you wish to grow thinner diminish your dinner.
H. S. Leigh
It's a very odd thing As odd as can be That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T.
Walter de la Mare
Kissing don't last: cookery do.
George Meredith
Flowers of all hue and without thorn the rose.
John Milton
A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."
Jean de La Fontaine
I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Omar Khayyám
One thing is certain and the rest is lies The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.
Omar Khayyám
But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
Robert Herrick
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Walt Whitman
If of thy mortal goods thoU art bereft And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left Sell one and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.
Sadi
And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies.
Christopher Marlowe
Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.
George Moore
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row That mark our place and in the sky The larks still bravely singing fly Scarce heard among the guns below.
John McCrae
Baby bye Here's a fly Let us watch him you and I. How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.
Theodore Tilton
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
Dorothy Parker
Cheers for the sailors that fought on the wave for it Cheers for the soldiers that always were brave for it Tears for the men that went down to the grave for it Here comes the Flag!
Arthur Macy
The flag of our Union forever!
George P. Morris
Shoot if you must this old gray head But spare your country's flag she said.
John Greenleaf Whittier
When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air She tore the azure robe of night And set the stars of glory there.
Joseph Rodman Drake
Your flag and my flag And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-reed The stripes forever gleam Snow-white and soul-white - The good forefathers' dream Sky-blue and true-blue with stars to gleam aright - The gloried guidon of the day a shelter through the night.
Wilbur D. Nesbit
O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!
William Shakespeare