Eliza Cook

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start,
When memory plays an old tune on the heart.

Irish Proverb

Laughter is brightest, in the place where the food is.

Arna Bontemps

Yet would we die as some have done,
beating a way for the rising sun.

Henry Constable

My lady's presence makes the roses red,
because to see her lips they blush for
shame.

Allen Ginsberg

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A man may devote himself to death and
destruction to save a nation; but no
nation will devote itself to death
and destruction to save mankind.

Dante Alighieri

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a
pupil imitates his master; thus your art must
be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Milton Babbit

The new limitations are the human ones of perception.

Bliss Carman

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one
turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot
in the long run.

Matthew Arnold

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Bob Leslie

An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can't
buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.

Francois Rabelais

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

Violet Fane

Let me arise and open the gate,
to breathe the wild warm air of the heath,
And to let in Love, and to let out Hate,
And anger at living and scorn of Fate,
To let in Life, and to let out Death.

Lao Tzu

Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.

Lui Xiaobo

The (Chinese) government has already turned the
Nobel Peace Prize into a political storm that
we never imagined could be so big. It is not
only nationwide, but it has gone global

Robert Creeley

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly
you offer it to this peculiar authority

Keith Moon

I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer
and full-time survivor. I survived all the
major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and
several air crash.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be
contested by any government or nation, not
even the most belligerent.

John Dryden

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Jack Paar

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle
race, with me as the chief obstacle.

Robert Bly

It is surely a great calamity for a human
being to have no obsessions.

Dylan Thomas

Dylan talked copiously, then stopped.
'Somebody's boring me,' he said,
'I think it's me.'

Palden Gyatso

“This is a responsible act. We ask the
IOC to take the opportunity to push the Chinese
government to improve human rights.”

Bill Cosby

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I
did my best to rewrite them.

Kahlil Gibran

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer
than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far
more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to
one passing through the valley than to those who
inhabit the mountain?

Sean O'Casey

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately
unrehearsed.

Antonio Machado

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

W. C. Fields

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even
have the decency to thank her.

Pietro Aretino

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure,
because, of all the things granted us by wisdom,
none is greater or better than friendship.

Stan Laurel

If anyone at my funeral has a long face,
I'll never speak to him again.

Arthur C Clarke

CNN is one of the participants in the war.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected
president but refuses because he doesn't want
to give up power.

Maya Angelou

Courage is the most important of all the virtues,
because without courage you can't practice any
other virtue consistently. You can practice any
virtue erratically, but nothing consistently
without courage.