Everything Quotes

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Forever is composed of nows.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

I dwell in possibility.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Where thou art, that is home.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

I'm nobody, who are you?

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

The brain is wider than the sky.

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.