Quotes

Here are bits of poetry and some more quotes which I thought were pretty cool.

"A great many open minds should be closed for repairs." -- Toledo Blade

"My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world." --George Bernard Shaw

"Mistakes are their own instructors." --Horace

"A Jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." --Robert Frost

"Time as he grows old teaches many lessons." - Aschylus (525-456 BC) Greek tragic dramatist

"The only people left in the ghetto are the ones that are being paid to stay there."

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. " - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"If life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, then let's all get wasted together and have the time of our lives."

"Let Deeds Match Words" --Platus

"He who hesitates is last." --Mae West

"I never worried about action, only inaction." --Sir Winston Churchill

"Heaven never helps the men who will not act." --Sophocles

"It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail." -- Mark Twain in Eruption

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards." --Oscar Wilde

"Love: An Irresistable desire to be Irresistably desired." --Mark Twain

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world" --Oscar Wilde

"...the events of life are mainly small events- they only seem large when we are close to them. By and by they settle down and we see that one doesn't show above another. They are all about one general low altitude, and inconsequential." -- Mark Twain's Autobiography

"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." --The Bible

"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys." --Joseph Conrad

"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true." --Katharine Hepburn

"Every man shall give as he is able , according to the blessing of the Lord, thy God which he hath given thee." --Deuteronomy 16:17

"Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself." --Alexander Walker

"The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go." --Humphrey Bogart

"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him." --Napoleon

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. " - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

God cannot alter the past, but historians can. --Samuel Butler

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. --Oscar Wilde

History: An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. --Ambrose Pierce

"The outside world doesn't have a lot to offer.You have to make your own heaven in your own home." --Bette Midler

"Woman was God's second mistake." --Friedrich Nietzsche

"One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again." --Henry Ford

"There is no failure except in no longer trying." --Elbert Hubbard

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal.
--Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind some people dying
all the time
or maybe only starving
some of the time
which isn't half so bad
if it isn't you.
--Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-The Road Not Taken

Some say the world will end in fire,
some say ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

--Fire and Ice

--Robert Frost

Nine requisites for contented living:

1) Health enough to make work a pleasure.
2) Wealth enough to support your needs.
3) Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
4) Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
5) Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
6) Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
7) Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
8) Faith enough to make real the things of God.
9) Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ten Strategies for Success 1) Never lose sight of the ultimate goal, but focus anxiety on short-tern objectives.
2) Set a personal example with visible dramatic symbols and behaviors.
3) Instill optimism and self-confidence - but stay grounded in reality.
4) Take care of yourself: maintain your stamina and let go of guilt.
5) Reinforce the team message constantly: "We are one - we live or die together."
6) Minimize status differences and insist on respect, courtesy and caring
7) Master conflict - deal with anger in small doses, embrace dissidents and avoid needless power struggles.
8) Find something to celebrate.
9) Be willing to take The Big Risk.
10) Never give up: There's always another move.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost.
--J. R. R. Tolkien "Lord of the Rings"

Beauty never slumbers;
All is in her name;
But the rose remembers
The dust from which it came.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay

Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are born to Sweet Delight,
Some are born to Endless Night.
--William Blake "Auguries of Innocence"

For this is Wisdom; to love, to live
To take what fate, or the Gods may give.
To ask no question, to make no prayer,
To kiss the lips and caress the hair,
Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow
To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go!
--Laurence Hope

God wrote His loveliest poem on the day
He made the first silver poplar tree,
And set it high upon a pale-gold hill
For all the new enchanted earth to see.
--Grace Noll (Mrs. Norman H. Crowell)

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
--William Butler Yeats

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
--W. H. Auden

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold,
She's a bird in a gilded cage.
--Arthur J. Lamb

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breath and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnets from the Portuguese"

I believe that if i should die,
and you were to walk near my grave,
from the very depths of the earth
I would hear your footsteps.
--Benito Perez Galdos

I have loved many, the more and the few
I have loved many that I might love you.
--Grace Fallow Norton

I shall go the way of the open sea,
To the lands I knew before you came,
And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me
The memory of your name.
--Laurence Hope

I walked beside the evening sea
And dreamed a dream that could not be;
The waves that plunged along the shore
Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!"
--George William Curtis

In Xanadu did Kublai Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Kubla Khan"

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
--William Shakespeare "Sonnet 18"

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
--Lord Byron "She Walks in Beauty"

Such a morning it is when love
leans through geranium windows
and calls with a cockerel's tongue.
When red-haired girls scamper like roses
over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey.
--Laurie Lee

Sweet springtime is my time
is your time
is our time
for springtime
is love time
and viva sweet love.
--e e cummings

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
--Robert Frost "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
--T. S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"

Twice or thrice I loved thee
Before I knew thy face or name
So in a voice, so in shapeless flame,
Angels affect us oft , and worshipped be
--John Donne "Air and Angels"

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
--Maria Lovell "Ingomar the Barbarian"

When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me:
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree.
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet:
And if thou wilt, remember
And if thou wilt, forget.
--Christina Rossetti "Song"