Poetrie Quotes & Sayings

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. — Thomas Jefferson

I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie ... — William Shakespeare

Focus on kindness not on hate.
Bliss will flow to open the gate. — Debasish Mridha

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval. — Archie Panjabi

Architecture is politics. — Mitchell Kapor

If one takes meaning into consideration, happiness might best be described as "a zest for life in all its complexity," as Sissela Bok writes in her book. To achieve it means to "attach our lives to something larger than ourselves." To be happy, one must do. It could be something as simple as teaching Sunday school or as grand as leading nonviolent protests. It could be as cerebral as seeking the cure for cancer or as physical as climbing mountains. It could be creating art. And it could be raising a child - my "best piece of poetrie," as Ben Jonson said in his elegy for his seven-year-old son. — Jennifer Senior

The other day a woman came up to me and said, Didn't I see you on television? I said, I don't know. You can't see out the other way. — Emo Philips

I feel that sometimes we are so distracted by superficial things, we forget what really matters: cherishing those around us. — Syesha Mercado

It's advice, not a commandment.
Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Jonson wrote a poem and called his son
His best piece of poetrie
A lovely line a little loathsome
I loved that poem once
He said we are lent our sons never take
Too much pleasure in what you love — Edward Hirsch

Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him. — Ardant Du Picq

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one. — Winston Churchill

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too. — Zig Ziglar