Quotes by Poets - Page 67

Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.
George Herbert
We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house.
Brendan Behan
Drink today and drown all sorrow You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
John Fletcher
Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.
A.E. Housman
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
William Butler Yeats
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.
Leigh Hunt
We are such stuff As dreams are made on and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare
If a woman were about to proceed to her execution she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.
Sebastien Chamfort
Till the day when I'll be going down that Long long trail with you.
Stoddard King
All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.
Antonio Machado
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
When in doubt do it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To Death I yield but not to Doubt who slays before!
Edith M. Thomas
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
Frances Ridley Havergal
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman
Doubt breeds doubt.
Franz Grillparzer
I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.
Olga Broumas
There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
Owen Meredith
Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
George Meredith
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
Johann von Goethe
To be or not to be that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them?
William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is a little lost pup with his tail tucked in!
Arthur Guiterman
Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt whatever.
W.S. Gilbert
I was born to other things.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.
Mme. Louise Colet
Let your own discretion be your tutor suit the action to the word the word to the action.
William Shakespeare
The better part of valour is discretion.
William Shakespeare
Men would be angels Angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
Now is the Winter of our discontent.
William Shakespeare
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air.
Friedrich von Schiller
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy.
James Drummond Burns
Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.
James Whitcomb Riley
God grant us patience!
William Shakespeare
Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And he shall reign a goodly king And sway his hand o'er every clime With peace writ on his signet ring Who bides his time.
James Whitcomb Riley
Self-denial is painful for a moment but very agreeable in the end.
Jane Taylor
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare
Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo
All things come round to him who will but wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time bears away all things.
Virgil
Come what come may time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience? What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
Who longest waits most surely wins.
Helen Hunt Jackson
You can't have genius without patience.
Margaret Deland
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us something unknown.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine
Our toil is sweet with thankfulness Our burden is our boon The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.
Pindar
Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to remember even this.
Virgil
What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T.S Eliot
There are trees that seem to die at the end of autumn. There are also the evergreens.
Gilbert Maxwell
If matters go badly now they will not always be so.
Horace