Bret Harte Quotes

15 quotes in 137 categories

• The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
• Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
• A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.
• If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but…
• Each lost day has its patron saint!
• The dominant expression of a child is gravity.
• Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee…
• The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.
• One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
• Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.
• We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
• A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
• Good luck happens when preparedness meets opportunity
• Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
• One big vice in a man is apt to keep out of a great many smaller ones

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