Quotes by Poets - Page 68

The present will not long endure.
Pindar
Life comes in clusters clusters of solitude then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe.
May Sarton
This too shall pass.
William Shakespeare
Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience day by day Even this shall pass away.
Theodore Tilton
Thy fate is the common fate of all Into each life some rain must fall Some days must be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design but destiny.
Owen Meredith
There is a divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them how we will.
William Shakespeare
He will give the devil his due.
William Shakespeare
The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
William Shakespeare
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
Miguel de Cervantes
Ail hope abandon ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
Ah love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire Would not we shatter it to bits - and then Re-mold it nearer to the heart's desire!
Omar Khayyám
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
Günter Grass
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
Rabindranath Tagore
Little deeds of kindness little words of love Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above.
Julia F. Carney
Who apart From ourselves can see any difference between Our victories and our defeats?
Christopher Fry
Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.
Sophocles
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.
James Russell Lowell
No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Of two evils choose the prettier.
Carolyn Wells
I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
Kathleen Raine
He who reflects too much will achieve little.
J. C. F. von Schiller
The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
Marge Piercy
How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
Sophocles
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge fitter to bruise than to polish.
Anne Bradstreet
Time has told me less than I need to know.
Gwen Harwood
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Choices are the hinges of destiny.
Edwin Markham
The difficulty of life is in the choice.
George Moore
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
Gertrude Stein
Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences whatever they may be.
W.H. Auden
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean de La Fontaine
Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy."
Mary Howitt
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
John Milton
Deceive not thy physician confessor nor lawyer.
George Herbert
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell Is he who hiding one thing in his heart Utters another.
Homer
Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.
Ben Jonson
Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain The heathen Chinese is peculiar.
Bret Harte
Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er.
Alexander Pope
God's finger touched him and he slept.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Sunset and evening star And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
Omar Khayyám
First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes and then our fears - and when These are dead the debt is due Dust claims dust - and we die too.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman
He that dies pays all debts.
William Shakespeare
Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it.
William Shakespeare
I am dying Egypt dying.
William Shakespeare
To die: - to sleep: No more and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.
William Shakespeare
Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
William Shakespeare
I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade.
Alan Seecer
It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha my little dear' I say 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'
Dorothy Parker
Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.
Archibald MacLeish
There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms of life arise.
Charles Mackay
Death so called is a thing which makes men weep And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.
Lord Byron
Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
John Donne
We begin to die as soon as we are born and the end is linked to the beginning.
Marcus Manilius
Is death the last sleep? No it is the last final awakening.
Walter Scott