Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems
It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's
The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.
One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three.
The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.
Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.
Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.
Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.
With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!
My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.
Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.
I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit
O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.
Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.
I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)
Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.
If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.
Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.
I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.
I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.
But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise
Be like you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together
I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.
Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.
Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.
A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.
Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.
A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart.
There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Throw open your window and let the scenery of clouds and sky enter your room.
You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!