Famous quotes by Poets

"The sum of all sums is eternity"

Lucretius, Poet

Lucretius

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied"

Lucretius, Poet

Lucretius

"Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles"

Lucretius, Poet

Lucretius

"Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion"

Lucretius, Poet

Lucretius

"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant"

Lucretius, Poet

Lucretius

"Life is one long struggle in the dark"

Lucretius, Poet

Lucretius

"Constant dripping hollows out a stone"

Lucretius, Poet

Lucretius

"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"All of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies or expiating the mistakes of our youth"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Familiar acts are beautiful through love"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Soul meets soul on lovers' lips"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Women would rather be right than reasonable"

Ogden Nash, Poet

Ogden Nash

"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else"

Ogden Nash, Poet

Ogden Nash

"Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you"

Ogden Nash, Poet

Ogden Nash

"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker"

Ogden Nash, Poet

Ogden Nash

"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of"

Ogden Nash, Poet

Ogden Nash

"I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance"

Ogden Nash, Poet

Ogden Nash

"Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?"

Ogden Nash, Poet

Ogden Nash

"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death"

Alexander Smith, Poet

Alexander Smith

"A great man is the man who does something for the first time"

Alexander Smith, Poet

Alexander Smith

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven"

John Milton, Poet

John Milton

"Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right"

John Milton, Poet

John Milton

"No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free"

John Milton, Poet

John Milton

"Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you"

John Donne, Poet

John Donne

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent"

John Donne, Poet

John Donne

"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king"

John Milton, Poet

John Milton

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