Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

Be hald, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are to decline your nectared wine, But all you must drink life's gall.

God, what a world, if men in street and mart felt that same kinship of the human heart which makes them, in the face of fire and flood, rise to the meaning of true brotherhood.

There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain.

Know that you are great...so dominate.

Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway.

Always continue to climb.

We two make banquets of the plainest fareIn every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measureWe two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

Feast, and your halls are crowdedFast, and the world goes bySucceed and give, and it helps you liveBut no man can help you die

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his packBut no one can rate a burden's weightUntil it has been on his back

In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we now discuss the chimpanzee.

I love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire

Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.

Whatever is-is best.

Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb and to seek the mountain view.

All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.

All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.

All love that has not friendship for its base Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

We flatter those we scarcely know We please the fleeting guest And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

Laugh and the world laughs with you weep and you weep alone.

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes And men grow better as the world grows old.

With every deed you are sowing a seed though the harvest you may not see.

Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth But has trouble enough of its own.

The two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean.

It is easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Though smooth be the heartless prayer no ear in heaven will mind it And the finest phrase falls dead if there is no feeling behind it.

And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate As the voyage along thru life 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong.

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.