John Godfrey Saxe Quotes
If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?
Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.
Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.
Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!
I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.
The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.
So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!
At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.
But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising!
All things of beauty are not theirs alone who hold the fee; but unto him no less who can enjoy, than unto them who own, are sweetest uses given to posses.
I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, "Matter-o'-money.
Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.
Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.
