Poet Quotes

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

She who has never loved has never lived.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

We only part to meet again.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.