Meeter Quotes

#1. I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie ...

William Shakespeare

#2. Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter ... the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing

John Milton

#3. The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.

Thomas Love Peacock

#4. Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

Nancy Mitford

#5. I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

Imogen Cunningham

#6. I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

Winston Churchill

#7. Not knowing should not be an excuse when the matter of knowing becomes a turning point in one's life

Mwangala Kamwi Joshua

#8. I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

Walt Disney

#9. Your love doesn't end because you find out that he's not related to you by blood. I believe that love transcends such small details as family lineage.

Delancey Stewart

#10. It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

Agnes Repplier

#11. Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

W. Somerset Maugham

#12. That simple touch felt like stars springing to life inside of me after years of living in darkness.

Jessie Humphries

#13. When you whisper about something, it's too big, and you can't get it under control and take control of it.

Joan Rivers