Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Southey

In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon Divine Rolls through the dark-blue depths.

Robert Southey

They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . . . . Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. . . . . . It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there.

Robert Southey

Cupid "the little greatest god."

Robert Southey

They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell.

Robert Southey

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Robert Penn Warren

Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be themselves Life. And not merely a delightful excercise of technical skill which man had been able to achieve because he, of all animals, had a fine thumb. Which is nonsense, for whatever you live is Life.

Robert Penn Warren

If a man knew how to live he would never die.

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.

Wallace Stevens

Life is the elimination of what is dead.

Wallace Stevens

Life is not free from its forms.

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

You might be [outshining me in many ways]. But if we get on a treadmill, there are two things: you're getting off first or I'm going to die. It's 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.

Will Smith

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

Will Smith

Life is lived on the edge.

Will Smith

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to you. And Stay.

Warren E. Burger

[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

Warren Buffett

Never lie under any circumstances.

Warren Buffett

We intend to continue our practice of working only with people whom we like and admire. This policy not only maximizes our chances for good results, it also ensures us an extraordinarily good time.

Warren Buffett

Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

Warren Buffett

You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

Warren Buffett

Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.