Quotes by Poets - Page 9

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'Tis better than many aver For while we've a whole lot of troubles The most of them never occur.
Nixon Waterman
To take arms against a sea of troubles.
William Shakespeare
Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
David Everett
Woodman spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me And I'll protect it now.
George P. Morris
This is the forest primeval.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The little Road says Go The little House says Stay And oh it's bonny here at home But I must go away.
Josephine P. Peabody
Poems are made by fools like me But only God can make a tree.
Joyce Kilmer
Little deeds of kindness little words of love Help to make earth happy like the heaven above.
Julia F. Carney
Et tu Brute! (You too Brutus!)
William Shakespeare
Trifles make perfection - and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
I am fevered with the sunset I am fretful with the bay For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.
Richard Hovey
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!
William Cowper
If one had but a single glance to give the world one should gaze on Istanbul.
Alphonse de Lamartine
For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.
George Santayana
There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.
Christian Morgenstern
My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take No matter where it's going.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.
William Shakespeare
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
John Keats
Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own: He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst for I have liv'd today.
John Dryden
Tomorrow life is too late: live today.
Martial
Tomorrow! - Why tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.
Omar Khayyám
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore
Little tube of mighty pow'r Charmer of an idle hour Object of my warm desire.
Isaac Hawkins Browne
Some hae meat and canna eat And some wad eat that want it But we hae meat and we can eat And sae the Lord be thankit.
James Drummond Burns
Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate And whatever sky's above me Here's a heart for every fate.
Lord Byron
Make use of time let not advantage slip.
William Shakespeare
There's a time for all things.
William Shakespeare
The time is out of joint.
William Shakespeare
O call back yesterday bid time return.
William Shakespeare
Dowling Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson
A wonderful stream is the River Time As it runs through the realms of Tears With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme As it blends with the ocean of Years.
Benjamin F. Taylor
For thy sake tobacco I Would do anything but die.
Charles Lamb
Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise Which if held before the eyes Gave him counsel at a glance Fit for every change and chance. Solemn words and these are they: "Even this shall pass away."
Theodore Tilton
Enjoy the present day trusting very little to the morrow.
Horace
The bird of time has but a little way To flutter - and the bird is on the wing.
Omar Khayyám
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old Time is still aflying And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick
Backward turn backward O Time in your flight Make me a child again just for tonight.
Elizabeth Akers Allen
Think not because no man sees such things will remain unseen.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small matters as they are.
Gamaliel Bradford
Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.
Marge Piercy
From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
Dante Alighieri
Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The smallest effort is not lost Each wavelet on the ocean tost Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow Each struggle lessens human woe.
Charles Mackay
Large streams from little mountains flow tall oaks from little acorns grow.
David Everett
In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when she'll say to thee "I find thee worthy do this deed for me?"
James Russell Lowell
Not all things are blest but the seeds of all things are blest.
Muriel Rukeyser
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
Alexander Smith
Nothing can be done except little by little.
Charles Baudelaire
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare
Take your needle my child and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like embroidery.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
If we take care of the inches we will not have to worry about the miles.
Hartley Coleridge
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
William Shakespeare
Life is a great bundle of little things.
Oliver Wendell Holmes