William Allingham Quotes

#1. Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.

Barbara Demick

#2. But, it was a funny thing: every day something happened that was important enough to be on the front page of the newspaper. She'd never bought it and seen a little sign that said 'Not much happened yesterday, sorry about that'.

Terry Pratchett

#3. If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

William Allingham

#4. My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.

Gail Carson Levine

#5. Heloise learned to love Abelard solely for who he was. That forbidden love brought her nothing but pain, but she would rather have shame and pain with Abelard than peace and happiness without him.

Gary Thomas

#6. Only the truth will never be silenced.

Eros Ramazzotti

#7. If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

Steve Guttenberg

#8. By the craggy hill-side,
Through the mosses bare,
They have planted thorn-trees
For pleasure here and there.
If any man so daring
As dig them up in spite,
He shall find their sharpest thorns
In his bed at night.

William Allingham

#9. Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this
Than any other thing!

William Allingham

#10. Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!

William Allingham

#11. Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.

William Allingham

#12. Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to hear.

William Allingham

#13. Autumn's the mellow time.

William Allingham

#14. Pluck not the wayside flower;
It is the traveler's dower.

William Allingham

#15. Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

William Allingham

#16. The only person powerful enough to deter me...is me

Auketria Manor

#17. Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring
Lies open, writ in blossoms.

William Allingham

#18. Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

William Allingham

#19. The mother's kiss is the sweetest thing ever.

William Allingham

#20. I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

William Allingham

#21. Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
For fear of little men.

William Allingham

#22. Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

William Allingham

#23. One who can see without seeming to see
That's an observer as good as three.

William Allingham

#24. Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.

William Allingham

#25. Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come ... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We feel the good time is well-nigh past.

William Allingham

#26. She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.

William Allingham

#27. Not like Homer would I write,
Not like Dante if I might,
Not like Shakespeare at his best,
Not like Goethe or the rest,
Like myself, however small,
Like myself, or not at all.

William Allingham

#28. A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful-then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

William Allingham

#29. Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.

William Allingham

#30. The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, 'Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near.

William Allingham

#31. When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!

Eric S. Raymond

#32. Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

Burt Reynolds

#33. Women can have all the evidence but they still want the confession.

Chris Rock