Symbols are selected from theyears' Slow rounding of four seasons' coasts… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
The first day of Christmas, My true love sent to me A partridge in a pear tree. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Live, you son of a bitch. You're gonna live if I have to blow your brains out. — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
Jack and Jill Went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down, And broke his crown, And Jill… — Mother Goose 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
I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The grey spires of Oxford Against a pearl-grey sky; My heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wind of their endurance, driving south, Flattened your words against your speaking mouth. — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
The house had gone to bring again To the midnight sky a sunset glow. Now the chimney was all of the house… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's backthat are absolutely and entirely true. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nothing does more to activateChristian divisions than talk about Christian unity. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
...he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script andto every people in its own language,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether he admits it or not, aman has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a… — Victoria Billings Copy Share Image
[My mother told me:] You must decide whether you want to get married someday,or have a career… I set my sights on… — Annie Elizabeth Delany Copy Share Image
My own songs awakened from that hour, And with them the key, the word up from the waves, The word of the… — Walt Whitman 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
But our old subtle foe so tempteth me That not one hour I can myself sustain. Thy grace may wing me to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From morning to night he's sojoyous and bright,… — Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Copy Share Image
Many parents worry that theywill reinforce a fear by being overly sympathetic. It helps toknow that when children are permitted to avoid… — Cathy Rindner Tempelsman Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, theprinciples of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived. Mostimportant… — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All you people don't know about lost causes. Mr. Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fightingfor, and… — Sidney Buchman Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, therevolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest? He said to him,You shall love the Lord your God with all your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A woman would be wise to think it well If once a week you only rang the bell. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image