Popular Quotes Through Time

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged - though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

All great things are done for their own sake.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these. She a window flower. And he a winter breeze.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

We love the things we love for what they are.

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.