Edmund Vance Cooke Quotes

#1. Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.

Edmund Vance Cooke

#2. Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

Edmund Vance Cooke

#3. I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.

Edmund Vance Cooke

#4. Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.

Edmund Vance Cooke

#5. Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted. There are some you love, I know; Be not loathe to tell them so. Lips go dry and eyes grow wet Waiting to be warmly met. Keep them not in waiting yet; Kisses kept are wasted.

Edmund Vance Cooke

#6. You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

Edmund Vance Cooke

#7. So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!

Edmund Vance Cooke