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Emily Dickinson: I took one...

Emily Dickinson: I took one...

I took one Draught of Life --
I'll tell you what I paid --
Precisely an existence --
The market price, they...

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Ogden Nash: A husband is...

Ogden Nash: A husband is...

A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips...

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Ogden Nash: Bankers are just...

Ogden Nash: Bankers are just...

Bankers are just like everyone else only richer.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Alexander Pope: Fools rush in...

Alexander Pope: Fools rush in...

Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.

Source: An Essay on Criticism ...

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Thornton Wilder: Even memory is...

Thornton Wilder: Even memory is...

Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love,...

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William Wordsworth: Getting and spending,...

William Wordsworth: Getting and spending,...

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets,...

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William Wordsworth: That best portion...

William Wordsworth: That best portion...

That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of...

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William Wordsworth: That was the...

William Wordsworth: That was the...

That was the song - the song for me!

Source: O Nightingale.
-- William...

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William Wordsworth: Thou best philosopher,...

William Wordsworth: Thou best philosopher,...

Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep
Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Do we indeed...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Do we indeed...

Do we indeed desire the dead
Should still be near us at our side?
Is there no baseness we would hide?
No...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Come into the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Come into the...

Come into the garden, Maud,
For the black bat, night, has flown,
Come into the garden, Maud,
I am here at the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Even tho' thrice...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Even tho' thrice...

Even tho' thrice again
The red fool-fury of the Seine
Should pile her barricades with...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: His honour rooted...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: His honour rooted...

His honour rooted in dishonour stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Our island home<br>Is...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Our island home
Is...

Our island home
Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.


Source: The...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: She has heard...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: She has heard...

She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out the...

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out, wild...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out, wild...

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Someone had blundered:<br>Theirs...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Someone had blundered:
Theirs...

Someone had blundered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The folly of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The folly of...

The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The grand old...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The grand old...

The grand old name of gentleman.

Source: In Memoriam, 111 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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