Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,
The heart can think of no devotionGreater than being shore to the ocean
I would not come in.I meant not even if asked,And I hadn't been.
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason,
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged--though not dead.I know how the flowers felt.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
The way a crowShook down on meThe dust of snowFrom a hemlock treeHas given my heartA change of mood
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
Don't be agnostic - be something.
You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination - what's right and what's wrong what's good and what's bad.
There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
All thought is a feat of association.
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
To be social is to be forgiving.