J.W. Lord Quotes

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

No toys in the fish tank

I have lived 78 years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

Life is brief but love is LONG .

Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.

The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?

Life is too short for chess.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.

The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.

One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.

I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.