Quotes by Poets - Page 74

Vexed sailors curse the rain For which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller
A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
There are three things which the public will always clamor for sooner or later: namely novelty novelty novelty.
Thomas Hood
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William Shakespeare
What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place.
T.S Eliot
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
I make the most of all that comes And the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale
Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.
John Milton
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it will be a fish.
Ovid
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Walt Whitman
God befriend us as our cause is just!
William Shakespeare
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
Miguel de Cervantes
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Miguel de Cervantes
The night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Old Care has a mortgage on every estate And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.
J. G. Saxe
A cat may look at a king.
John Heywood
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
Paul Valéry
To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight.
William Shakespeare
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
Franklin Pierce Adams
No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas And yet he semed bisier that he was.
Geoffrey Chaucer
belongs anywhere even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.
George Bowering
If we can find out why the idea rather than the nation of Canada can win a growing loyalty rather than commanding it then it seems to me we shall have come very near to trapping the elusive creature the Canadian Identity.
George Woodcock
He wants to be different from everyone else and daydreams of winning the global race Parents unmarried and living abroad relatives keen to bag the estate schizophrenia not excluded will he learn to grow up before it's too late?
Earle Birney
A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.
Brendan Behan
Canada is a live country - live but not like the States kicking.
Rupert Brooke
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret Atwood
I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.
Leonard Cohen
Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.
Kenneth Boulding
An arena large as Europe Silent waiting the contest
F. R. Scott
The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.
T.E. Hulme
You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.
Al Purdy
To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cutting honest throats by whispers.
Walter Scott
Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.
Ben Jonson
Everyone lives by selling something.
Robert Louis Stevenson
God helps the brave.
Friedrich von Schiller
When man to man shall be a friend and brother.
Gerald Massey
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
Cost little less than new before they're ended.
Colley Cibber
None but the brave deserves the fair.
John Dryden
I know on which side my bread is buttered.
John Heywood
Better is half a loaf than no bread.
John Heywood
Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.
E. V. Knox
Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.
Thomas Tusser
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare
It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
Don Marquis
Then here's to the City of Boston The town of the cries and the groans Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.
Franklin P. Adams
Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire
In the ancient recipe the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep drink and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up from drink you become sober and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.
D.H. Lawrence
If your daily life seems poor do not blame it blame yourself tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Somebody's boring me I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas
Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost
He says a thousand pleasant things - But never says "Adieu"
J. G. Saxe
Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron
A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Johann von Goethe
The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A bore is a man who when you ask him how he is tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton