Freneau Quotes

#1. The heaven and earth afford me no shelter at all; I'm glad, unreal are body and soul. Welcome thy weapon, O warrior of Yuen! Thy trusty steel, That flashes lightning, cuts the wind of Spring, I feel.

Alan W. Watts

#2. If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;
The space between is but an hour,
The frail duration of a flower.

Philip Freneau

#3. Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

John Fowles

#4. Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to help others.

Philip Freneau

#5. Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.

Elena Ferrante

#6. Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

Gail Tsukiyama

#7. At sea let the British their neighbors defy-The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

Philip Freneau

#8. I can't be worrying about what other people think of me. I am my own person, and I have made it this far on my own. This is me - take me or leave me. I don't owe explanations to the rest of the world, only to my family.

Shilpa Shetty

#9. Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

Victor Hugo

#10. I dream of a time when the people will retake their airways and use them to achieve a voice to rediscover democracy, and to see the divine potential of man.

Gerry Spence

#11. When I crawled down the rabbit hole into the pivotal event of my life--indeed the pivotal event of my generation--to write "Escape from Saigon - a Novel" I never expected it to be such an emotional journey into a life I left four decades ago.

Dick Pirozzolo

#12. Tobacco surely was designed
To poison, and destroy mankind.

Philip Freneau

#13. I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.

Elvis Presley

#14. One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#15. And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.

Philip Freneau

#16. They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.

Philip Freneau

#17. To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw,

Philip Freneau

#18. Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers.

Philip Freneau

#19. But fame is theirs - and future days
On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead -
"These for their country fought and bled."

Philip Freneau