Venus me yaf my lust, my like rousnesse, And Mars yaf me my sturdy hardinesse. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone isalways stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. — Käthe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
That though we are certain ofmany things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remainsthe possibility of our being mistaken… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
One would never have guessed that the world had such a capacity for genuine grief. The most we can do is exploit… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Just at the stroke when my veins start and spread, Set on my soul an everlasting head. Then am I ready, like… — Sir Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Oh, may she deign to stand atmy bedside When I come to die; and may she call to me And draw me… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
There are no comrades. Turn on a comrade; accuse him; even destroy him if necessary. — John Monks Jr Copy Share Image
With all the surgical skill and the vital rays lavished on him he should talk like alike a congressman at a filibuster. — Kenneth Langtry Copy Share Image
When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful family called Stein: There's Gert and there's Ep and there's Ein. Gert's poems are bunk, Ep's statues are junk,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves… — Alfred Edward Housman Copy Share Image
All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
This wild night, gathering the washing as if it were flowers animal vines twisting over theline and slapping my face lightly, soundless… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong.It rejects the Christian principle of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
All the world is full of inscapeand chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilization. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Communication is a continualbalancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacyand independence. To survivein the world, we have to act in concert… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
There are certain thingsas, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three That I hate, but the thing thatI… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Leaving the page of the book carelessly open, something unsaid, the phone off the hook and the love, whatever it was,an infection. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Anyone can success to beat me only two conditions.if I'm to much sick, or my Chinese mobile is dead. otherwise beating to… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of thisweb of God, but always circular power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pilot to crew. Take a good look at Pearl Harbor. Maybe it's something you'll want to remember. — Dudley Nichols Copy Share Image
