Jocund Quotes

#1. The idea becomes a machine that makes art.

Sol LeWitt

#2. I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

Willie Nelson

#3. Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.

David Starkey

#4. And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.

John Milton

#5. Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.

Paul Ryan

#6. But when he kissed me? I didn't feel lost in him the way I get lost in you.

Christina Lauren

#7. I stretched my arms out to the side and closed my eyes. I was no longer a parentless child. Nor was I a burn victim. Or the girl who was being abused. I was simply Joey. And, I was free.

Scott Hildreth

#8. And I, most jocund, apt, and willingly, To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die.

William Shakespeare

#9. Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops. Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.

William Shakespeare

#10. If people get together, so eventually will nations.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#11. The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.

Gerald R. Ford

#12. Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund

William Shakespeare

#13. When age is jocond it makes sport for death.
[When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]

George Herbert

#14. I have always thought that perhaps formal good manners may be a cushion against heartbreak.

John Steinbeck

#15. Every autumn I
take myself into my arms
and kiss my palms
for making it through another
year.

Darshana Suresh

#16. He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it.
[He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]

George Herbert

#17. And jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops ...

William Shakespeare

#18. When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.

Sandra Lerner

#19. I came to this earth so that I could find my way back to my Beloved.

Rumi

#20. As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.

Thomas Sadoski