Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

5714 Poet Quotes

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

Finding Free Goal Means
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Along Carries Every Evolving
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Art Breathing Capacity Every
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Eludes Like Long Many
  Favorite Make wallpaper

First appearance deceives many.

Appearance Deceives First First Appearance
  Favorite Make wallpaper

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.

Every First First Thing I Believe
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Absence Acquainted Affliction Am
  Favorite Make wallpaper

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Delay Everything Folly Hasten
  Favorite Make wallpaper
You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
Anyone Enemy Even Learn
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Anger Beasts Becomes Belongs
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

Always Cast Chance Expect
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Always Anxiety Goes Pleasure
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

Beautiful Crop Field Gives
  Favorite Make wallpaper
You will go most safely in the middle.
Go Middle Most Safely
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Time, the devourer of all things.
Time Devourer Things The
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Everything Comes Gradually Appointed
  Favorite Make wallpaper

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Indifferent Makes Men Please
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Away Gives Health Medicine
  Favorite Make wallpaper
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Lovable Loved Want You
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Am Ancient Ancient Times Born
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Achievement Arduous Attempt Difficult
  Favorite Make wallpaper

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Child Fulfilled How Little
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Brings Deed Good Good Deed
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Catch Fast He Horse
  Favorite Make wallpaper

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Claim Confidence Magnitude People
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Accord Encouraged Even Faster
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Any Darkness Every Fair
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Become Come Contrary Courtesy
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Exceptions Knows Man Old
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

Children Done Honest Like
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Because Grow Men Old
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Always Because Before Die
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Chamber Common First-Rate Furniture
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Fits Handle Lie Many
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Act Courage Instead React
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Before Carve Clearly Every
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Experience Insight Life Moment
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Friendship Game Plays Pleasing
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

At Least One Before Begin Born
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Begin Grandiose Man Politics
  Favorite Make wallpaper

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Dared Greatly Nobly Thought
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Another Gates Hateful Heart
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Light is the task where many share the toil.
Light Many Share Task
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Admirable Enemies Eye Friends
  Favorite Make wallpaper

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Better Fathers Few Most
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Die Difficulty Dying Find
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Also Many Sleep Time
  Favorite Make wallpaper

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Aloof Best Curb Gentle
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Glow Good Heart Learned
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Ask Brave Cause Country
  Favorite Make wallpaper