Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.
Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.
The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
The morning is like the inside of a snow-apple.
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.
He is always a slave who cannot live on little.
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.
My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
There are as many preferences as there are men.
Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]
Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.
He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.
Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.
Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
There is no evil in the world without a remedy.
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.
We are never like angels till our passion dies.
Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none.
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.
A thing well said will be wit in all languages.
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it
The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.
Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.
Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.