SundayJan 18, 2026
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: 'Fool!' said my muse to me, 'look in thy heart, and write.'
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
Have I caught my heavnly jewel.
Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor mans wealth, the prisoners release, Th indifferent judge between the high and low.
To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climbst the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face!
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.
Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust, And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust; Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings.
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge.
No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue.
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
My dear, my better half.
He cometh unto with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
The common ingredients of health and long life are: Great temperance, open air, Easy labor, little care.
Thy necessity is greater than mine.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways.
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
Eagles we see fly alone; and they are but sheep which Always herd together.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark; yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush.
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell - that monster called Pain.
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