"A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well." "Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents", grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." "Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it." "He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
"Housekeeping ain't no joke." "If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won." "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." "It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women." "Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won." "Love is a great beautifier." "Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy." "Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations." "'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary." "We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing." "What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?" "Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling." Also ReadQuotations / Quotes by famous personalities
"A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas." "A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor." "Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."
"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age." "God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man." "Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace." "He who opens a school door, closes a prison." "In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity." "Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." "Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use." "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." "One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas." "The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages." "The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal." "The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." "There shall be no slavery of the mind." "This is the battle between day and night... I see black light." "To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark." "To love another person is to see the face of God." "To love is to act." "To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better." "What makes night within us may leave stars." "Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background." "You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea."
"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. His auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician." "And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea; What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me?" "Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted."
"Familiar acts are beautiful through love." "Fear not for the future, weep not for the past." "He lives, he wakes — 'tis Death is dead, not he." "I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight." "Love's very pain is sweet." "Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder." "Most musical of mourners, weep again!" "Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken." "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" "O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?" "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." "Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life." "Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted." "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar." "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." "Soul meets soul on lovers' lips." "The more we study, we the more discover our ignorance." "The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself." "There is no sport in hate where all the rage is on one side." "We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter, With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition." "A people always ends by resembling its shadow." "A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty." "All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They."
"And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!" "As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place." "Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old." "But remember, please, the Law by which we live, We are not built to comprehend a lie, We can neither love nor pity nor forgive, If you make a slip in handling us you die! We are greater than the Peoples or the Kings— Be humble, as you crawl beneath our rods!— Our touch can alter all created things, We are everything on earth—except The Gods!" "Cities and Thrones and Powers, Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die: But, as new buds put forth To glad new men, Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth, The Cities rise again." "Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work." "Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run." "For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high." "For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack." "Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade." "God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Belovèd over all." "He travels the fastest who travels alone." "He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors." "I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble." "I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me." "I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob." "I keep six honest serving-men: (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Where and When And How and Why and Who." "I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards." "If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied." "If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten." "If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same." "If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it..." "If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise." "If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!" "It was our fault, and our very great fault—and now we must turn it to use. We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse." "Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice." "More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies." "No easy hope or lies Shall bring us to our goal, But iron sacrifice Of body, will, and soul." "Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die." "Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears." "Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun, Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn." "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!" "Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. "The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible — and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else." "There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right! "There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, Or the way of a man with a maid; "There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this." "We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse." We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart; But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: “It's clever, but is it Art?” "We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding." "When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it—lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!" "When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey." Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro— "And what should they know of England who only England know?" "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
