Quotes by Poets - Page 78

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
T.S Eliot
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Age cannot wither her nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare
An old man is twice a child.
William Shakespeare
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
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Be still sad heart and cease repining Behind the clouds the sun is shining 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
Whatever advice you give be short.
Horace
You must not think sir to catch old birds with chaff.
Cervantes
Advice is like snow the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is well enough when one is talking to a friend to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then but there is something mighty irksome in its staring upon one in a letter where one ought to see only kind words and friendly remembrances.
Mary Lamb
I give myself sometimes admirable advice but I am incapable of taking it.
Mary Wortley Montagu
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sweet are the uses of adversity Which like the toad ugly and venomous Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan
If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet
Adversity reveals genius prosperity conceals it.
Horace
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
George Meredith
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses it would still be just to deem it good for something.
Jean de La Fontaine
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.
Robert Frost
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
Edith Sitwell
Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
Josiah G. Holland
Troubles cured you salty as a country ham smoky to the taste thick-skinned and tender inside.
Marge Piercy
As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss and thou shalt find no loss great.
Francis Quarles
He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.
Emily Dickinson
True knowledge comes only through suffering.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.
Edgar Allan Poe
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Kahlil Gibran
How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Maureen Duffy
Remorse begets reform.
William Cowper
Down you mongrel Death! Back into your kennel!
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
When things come to the worse they generally mend.
Susanna Moodie
They sicken of calm who know the storm.
Dorothy Parker
If you will call your troubles experiences and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you you will grow vigorous and happy however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Heywood
Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily Dickinson
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Alexander Pope
What we want is never simple.
Linda Pastan
For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.
Beah Richards
Adversity is to me at least a tonic and a bracer.
Sir Walter Scott
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence every one must take an equal portion most people would be content to take their own and depart.
Solon
They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
Dorothy Parker
For fools admire but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope
He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene.
Andrew Marvell
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
Friedrich von Schiller
Trust no future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant.
Thomas Hood
What's done can't be undone.
William Shakespeare
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles
He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done and he did it.
Edgar A. Guest
Let us do or die.
James Drummond Burns
Even now I am full of hope but the end lies in God.
Pindar