Quotes by Poets - Page 77

The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.
Margaret Atwood
If't were not for my cat and dog I think I could not live.
Ebenezer Elliott
Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
I think I could turn and live with animals they are so placid and self-contain'd I stand and look at them long and long They do not sweat and whine about their condition They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God Not one is dissatisfied not one is demented with the mania of owning things. Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that liveth thousands of years ago Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Walt Whitman
To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
Johann von Goethe
A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage.
William Blake
To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night. From his watchtower in the skies Til the dappled dawn doth rise.
John Milton
If called by a panther Don't anther.
Ogden Nash
Wee sleekit cow'rin timrous beastie 0 what a panic's in thy breastie! Wi' bickering brattle!
Robert Burns
Hi handsome hunting man Fire your little gun Bang! Now the animal Is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again creep again leap again Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh what fun.
Walter de la Mare
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
D.H. Lawrence
Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.
Lewis Thomas
You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind.
T.S Eliot
Anger as soon as fed is dead - Tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not my wrath did grow.
William Blake
Anger is momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.
Horace
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
Cats no less liquid than their shadows Offer no angles to the wind. They slip diminished Neat through loopholes Less than themselves.
A.S.J. Tessimond
Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorn'd.
William Congreve
A microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all.
Hilaire Belloc
Thou too sail on O Shipof State! Sail on O Union strong and great! Humanity with all its fears With all the hopes of future years Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stormy husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders.
Carl Sandburg
A Bostonian - an American broadly speaking.
G. E. Woodberry
0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
Katharine Lee Bates
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
George Santayana
As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.
Stephen Vincent Benét
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
Robert Frost
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein
The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.
Ray Smith
The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.
Allen Ginsberg
Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
John Milton
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
Ovid
Praise a large domain cultivate a small estate.
Virgil
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power a little transient fame A grave to rest in and a fading name!
William Winter
Golden lads and girls all must As chimney-sweepers come to dust.
William Shakespeare
When that the poor have cried Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man.
William Shakespeare
If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.
Ogden Nash
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
T.S Eliot
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
When pain ends gain ends too.
Robert Browning
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
William Cowper
A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
George Santayana
I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.
George Santayana
No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.
John Donne
Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Ogden Nash
The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.
T.S Eliot
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
But Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe and on my jolitee It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age alias! that al wole envenyme Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon ther is namoore to telle The bren as I best kan now most I selle.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be The last of life for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth "a whole I plant Youth shows but half Trust God see all nor be afraid."
Robert Browning
To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent -that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare