Quotes by Poets - Page 7

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett
Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.
Lord Byron
Sweet and low sweet and low Wind of the western sea Low low breathe and blow Wind of the western sea!
Lord Alfred Tennyson
If Winter comes can Spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Blow wind and crack your cheeks. Rage! Blow!
William Shakespeare
An ill wind that bloweth no man good - The blower of which blast is she.
John Heywood
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert Service
Wickedness is weakness.
John Milton
All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n.
Alexander Pope
She is a winsome wee thing She is a handsome wee thing She is a bonny wee thing This sweet wee wife o' mine.
James Drummond Burns
Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife He would have written sonnets all his life?
Lord Byron
A miss for pleasure and a wife for breed.
John Gay
My dear my better half.
Philip Sidney
When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.
W.H. Auden
Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.
Rabindranath Tagore
Out where the handclasp's a little stronger Out where the smile dwells a little longer That's where the West begins.
Arthur Chapman
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No man ever became very wicked all at once.
Juvenal
I must be cruel Only to be kind.
William Shakespeare
God bears with the wicked but not forever.
Cervantes
Westward Ho!
George Peele
God bears with the wicked but not forever.
Miguel de Cervantes
April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
T.S Eliot
Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them.
T.S Eliot
Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home.
Lord Byron
Thou hast been called O sleep! the friend of woe But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.
Robert Southey
For some must watch while some must sleep thus runs the world away.
William Shakespeare
Welcome as the flowers in May.
Walter Scott
I have mental joys and mental health Mental friends and mental wealth I've a wife that I love and that loves me I've all but riches bodily.
William Blake
Get place and wealth if possible with grace If not by any means get wealth and place.
Alexander Pope
Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
Horace
The wealth of nations is men not silk and cotton and gold.
Richard Hovey
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard.
William Shakespeare
I'll fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade - A breath can make them as a breath has made - But a bold peasantry their country's pride When once destroy'd can never be supplied.
Oliver Goldsmith
The smell of profit is clean and sweet whatever the source.
Juvenal
I glory more in the coming purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
Ben Jonson
I'll fares the land to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith
The brazen throat of war.
John Milton
It is not right to exult over slain men.
Homer
Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.
James Russell Lowell
God how the dead men Grin by the wall Watching the fun Of the Victory Ball.
Alfred Noyes
O war! thou son of Hell!
William Shakespeare
Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep though poppies grow In Flanders' fields.
John McCrae
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored: He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Julia Ward Howe
To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!
Rouget de Lisle
War he sung is toil and trouble Honour but an empty bubble.
John Dryden
What millions died - that Caesar might be great!
Thomas Campbell
What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the cruelty the injustice the treachery the murderous hand of man.
William Ellery Channing
Men grow tired of sleep love singing and dancing sooner than of war.
Homer
War is the trade of kings.
John Dryden
War is like love it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg
Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.
John Ciardi
What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Brendan Behan
We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.
William Shakespeare
They will conquer but they will not convince.
Miguel de Unamuno
Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled Scots wham Bruce has aften led Welcome to your gory bed Or to victorie.
Robert Burns
How few our real wants and how vast our imaginary ones!
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith