Leaving Cert Poetry Quotes

#1. There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 'tis hardly worth while to be here at all.

Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke

#2. The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

John Ruskin

#3. I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.

Will Ferrell

#4. Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

Phil McGraw

#5. What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.

Sharon Salzberg

#6. My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

Desmond Llewelyn

#7. God is in His heaven. All is right in the world.

L.M. Montgomery

#8. There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.

Helen Gurley Brown

#9. Time is the school we learn in.

Marty Rubin

#10. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

Jimmy Connors