--- title: "1 Laws Man Quotes By A. E. Housman" description: "1 Laws Man quotes by A. E. Housman. Plus more from A. E. Housman and more Laws Man sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97b/a-e-housman-8360_god_the-laws-of-god-the-laws-of-man-he-may-k_1262135.png" --- > [The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/the-laws-of-god-the-laws-of-man-he-may-keep-that-will-and-can-not-i/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97b/a-e-housman-8360_god_the-laws-of-god-the-laws-of-man-he-may-k_1262135.png) ## More by A. E. Housman > [I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/i-think-that-to-transfuse-emotion-not-to-transmit-thought-but-to-set/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/clay-lies-still-but-blood-s-a-rover-breath-s-aware-that-will-not-keep/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/housman-is-one-of-my-heroes-and-always-has-been-he-was-a-detestable/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/on-occasions-after-drinking-a-pint-of-beer-at-luncheon-there-would-be/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [To justify God's ways to man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/to-justify-god-s-ways-to-man/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/ten-thousand-times-i-ve-done-my-best-and-all-s-to-do-again/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/here-dead-lie-we-because-we-did-not-choose-to-live-and-shame-the-land/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/a-moment-s-thought-would-have-shown-him-but-a-moment-is-a-long-time/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/his-folly-has-not-fellow-beneath-the-blue-of-day-that-gives-to-man-or/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/on-wenlock-edge-the-wood-s-in-trouble-his-forest-fleece-the-wrekin/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/into-my-hear-an-air-that-kills-through-yon-far-country-blows-what-are/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > ['Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/tis-spring-come-out-to-ramble-the-hilly-brakes-around-for-under-thorn/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/if-a-man-will-comprehend-the-richness-and-variety-of-the-universe-and/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/malt-does-more-than-milton-can-to-justify-god-s-ways-to-man/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/i-am-not-a-pessimist-but-a-pejorist-as-george-eliot-said-she-was-not/) [A. E. 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