John Masefield Famous Quotes



"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university ... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see."

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.


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That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
Bill Watterson

"Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are."
Joan L Curcio

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
Francis Bacon

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D Eisenhower

"Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume the hellish cycle is complete."
Raoul Vaneigem

A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.
Thomas Carlyle

"I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye."
Leonard

"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."
Norman Lear

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe