Thee Quotes - Page 2

• If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

  Elizabeth I

  Heart, Climbing, Hiking

  Lines after Sir Walter Ralegh, written on a window-pane: Thomas Fuller 'Worthies of England' vol. 1, p. 419.

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• Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Art, Salt, Harm

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• Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

  George Herbert

  Glasses, Alcohol, Drink

  'The Church-porch', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

  Charles Kingsley

  Work, Christian Inspirational, Tools

  Charles Kingsley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated)”, p.4065, Delphi Classics

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• Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

  John Milton

  Book, Men, Self

  "Complete Poems and Major Prose".

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• Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

  William Penn

  Confidence, Betrayal, Betrayed

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.136

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• I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

  Harry Dean Stanton

  Good Night, Sweet, Angel

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• Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Teaching, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• Get thee to a nunnery.

  William Shakespeare

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [124]

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• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, August, Misunderstood

  Sonnet 18

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• There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Fellowship, Existence

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.363

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• The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

  George Edward Moore

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

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• I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Romeo Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Important

  1595 Romeo. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.1, l.93-4.

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• My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.

  William Shakespeare

  I Love You, True Love, Wedding

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• And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Goodnight, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [373]

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• Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Giving Up, Heart, Never Give Up On Love

  'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'

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• Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

  Cotton Mather

  Ignorance, Done, World

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• Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Suicide, Pain, Complaining

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics

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• Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Heart, Quiet

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• Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Rain, Play

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 33

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• Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Men, Light Waves

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

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• But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Eternity, Love Poems

  Sonnet 18

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• Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

  George Edward Moore

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties.

  Don King

  Lying, Ties, People

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Whales, Sea

  Moby Dick ch. 135 (1851)

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