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Colley Cibber: Stolen sweets are...

Colley Cibber: Stolen sweets are...

Stolen sweets are best.

Source: The Rival Fools, I.
-- Colley Cibber, (Nov 6...

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Imamu Amiri Baraka: The African, because...

Imamu Amiri Baraka: The African, because...

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery,...

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Robert Bolt: The law is...

Robert Bolt: The law is...

The law is not a light for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway...

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Robert Browning: Genius has somewhat...

Robert Browning: Genius has somewhat...

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.

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Robert Frost: The brain is...

Robert Frost: The brain is...

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn't stop until you get to...

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Ovid: Those things that...

Ovid: Those things that...

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

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William Cowper: O, popular applause!...

William Cowper: O, popular applause!...

O, popular applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?


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John Donne: God employs several...

John Donne: God employs several...

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by...

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Joaquin Miller: The biggest dog...

Joaquin Miller: The biggest dog...

The biggest dog has been a pup.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Sophocles: Men of ill...

Sophocles: Men of ill...

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost...

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Thomas Campbell: Truth ever lovely...

Thomas Campbell: Truth ever lovely...

Truth ever lovely - since the world began,
The foe of tyrants and the friend of man.


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Alexander Smith: The sea complains...

Alexander Smith: The sea complains...

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Robert Frost: A poem begins...

Robert Frost: A poem begins...

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Charlie Sheen: There's an innocence...

Charlie Sheen: There's an innocence...

There's an innocence that has kind of gone away. Umm . . . the novelty factor hasn't been there for a...

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John Barrymore: America is the...

John Barrymore: America is the...

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two...

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Joyce Kilmer: There is no...

Joyce Kilmer: There is no...

There is no peace to be taken
With poets who are young,
For they worry about the wars to be fought
and the...

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Cecil Frances Alexander: The rich man...

Cecil Frances Alexander: The rich man...

The rich man in his castle,
the poor man at his gate,
God made them, high or lowly,
and ordered their...

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Stevie Smith: The Englishwoman is...

Stevie Smith: The Englishwoman is...

The Englishwoman is so refined
She has no bosom and no behind.


Source: This...

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Stevie Smith: Nobody heard him,...

Stevie Smith: Nobody heard him,...

Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not...

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Eliza Cook: Better build schoolrooms...

Eliza Cook: Better build schoolrooms...

Better build schoolrooms for the boy,
Than cells and gibbets for the man.


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