Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes are in his mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

Samuel Johnson

Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!

Samuel Johnson

In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.

Samuel Johnson

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.

Samuel Johnson

Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone.

Samuel Johnson

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

Samuel Johnson

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Samuel Johnson

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Samuel Johnson

The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence....

Samuel Johnson

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.

Samuel Johnson

Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption.

Samuel Johnson

A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine.

Jewellery takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

Wallace Stevens

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

Wallace Stevens

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Wallace Stevens

Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.

Vittorio Alfieri

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

Vivien Leigh

Life is too short to work so hard.

Virgil

All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . . . In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.

William Henry Hudson

Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made so by man; that man alone of all the creatures, has "found out many inventions", the chief of which appears to be the art of making himself miserable, and of seeing all Nature stained with that dark and hateful colour.

Willa Cather

life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Willa Cather

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Willa Cather

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Willa Cather

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Willa Cather

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

Will Smith

You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there are two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple, right?

Will Smith

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.