All Edgar Guest Quotes
- I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes… Everyday
- I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve… Cherries
- There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie. Cherries
- I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world. Family
- There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you, one… Assail
- The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much… Access
- The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds. All
- The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand… Day
- Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it… All
- All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters. All
- Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow. Banishes
- Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way. And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say.… Along
- So long as men shall be on earth, there will be tasks for them to do. Some way for them to show their worth. Each… Been
- The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain. Any
- No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he… Beat
- When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet and take a… Best
- I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. Any
- Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say… Buckled
- At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's… Any
- I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know. Fit
- I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad… Along
- The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The… Any
- The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that… Day
- But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out. All
- For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three. Age