"Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond today." "And weep the more, because I weep in vain." "Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
"Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." "The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes." "The paths of glory lead but to the grave." "Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune." "Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crown not on my soul." "Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise." "Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms."
"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 foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — "Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and "Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." "A great man is always willing to be little." "A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good." "A man is a god in ruins." "Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time." "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." "All the great speakers were bad speakers at first." "Always do what you are afraid to do." "Art is a jealous mistress." "Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue." "Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature." "Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait." "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet." "By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote." "Character is higher than intellect...A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think." "Character teaches above our wills." "Children are all foreigners." "Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live." "Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will." "Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." "Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him." "Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." "Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." "Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus." "Every artist was first an amateur." "Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun." "Every hero becomes a bore at last." "Every man I meet is in some way my superior; and in that I can learn of him." "Every man is wanted and no man is wanted much." "Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact." "Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era." "Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in." "Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good." "Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society." "Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others." "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind." "Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence." "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." "Great geniuses have the shortest biographies." "Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it." "He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses." "He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life." "Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right." "Hitch your wagon to a star." "I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new." "I do this not selfishly, but humbly and truly. It is alike your interest, and mine, and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth." "I hate quotation. Tell me what you know." "I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching." "I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. I will not hide my tastes or aversions." "I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant." "If a man own land, the land owns him." "If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him." "If you are noble, I will love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own." "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." "In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed." "It is easy to live for others; everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves." "It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, — "Always do what you are afraid to do." "Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence." "Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." "Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy." "Life only avails, not the having lived." "Life is our dictionary." "Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any." "Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments." "Men are what their mothers made them." "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science." "Money often costs too much." "Music is the poor man's Parnassus." "My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects." "Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them." "Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same." "Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration." "Never read any book that is not a year old." "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." "One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly." "Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can." "Our strength grows out of our weakness." "People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." "Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock." "Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity." "Science does not know its debt to imagination." "Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him." "Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...Strong men believe in cause and effect." "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." "Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend." "Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." "That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us." "The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye." "The ancestor of every action is a thought." "The days .... come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away." "The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." "The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue." "The heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be the heroic." "The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man." "The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity." "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." "The man in the street does not know a star in the sky." "The man who renounces himself, comes to himself." "The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later." "The only gift is a portion of thyself." "The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." "The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." "The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war." "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." "The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." "The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out." "The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs." "The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks." "The world is his, who has money to go over it." "The years teach much which the days never know." "There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant." "There is no knowledge that is not power." "There is properly no history; only biography." "These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence." "Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful." "This world belongs to the energetic." "Thou art to me a delicious torment." "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not." "'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear." "To be great is to be misunderstood." "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius." "To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven." "To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom." "Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live." "Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places." "Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great." "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." "Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none." "Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands." "We are always getting ready to live, but never living." "We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples." "We boil at different degrees." "We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents." "We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count." "We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can." "Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth." "Whatever limits us we call Fate." "Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves." "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." "You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." "You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." "You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both." "Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing."
"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."
