William Butler Yeats Quotes, Long Quotes, Ancient Quotes

Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Long Quotes , Ancient Quotes

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Light Quotes , Long Quotes

When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Long Quotes , People Quotes

That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ovid Quotes , Long Quotes

A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Inspirational Life Quotes , Long Quotes

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Long Quotes , Water Quotes

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Long Quotes , People Quotes

The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Love Quotes , Long Quotes

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Long Quotes , Hamlet And Ophelia Quotes

The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Long Quotes , Pay Quotes

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Believe Quotes , Long Quotes

They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and erat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Taken Quotes , Long Quotes

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Long Quotes , Together Quotes

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Writing Quotes , Long Quotes

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Long Quotes , Office Quotes

If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or my stupidity, I'm not sure which.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam West Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Long Quotes

The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. Whitney Brown Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Long Quotes

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Long Quotes , Path Quotes

When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Long Quotes , Gone Quotes

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Long Quotes , Effort Quotes