M.K. Alexander Quotes
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.
You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.
I'm one of the luckiest Arab actors on the planet, because I've done, I think, two of the finest Arab roles that have been out in mainstream cinema for a very long time.
You're not actually being a good actor all the time. But people refer to me as a good actor because they read it someplace, not because they've made up their own mind. So I'm very lucky!
If you are with someone who is awesome and having a good time, you can sit at a bus station and still have fun.
I like to dress up and put on a nice suit for a party or a special event; I do enjoy it, but on a daily basis I wear stuff that I feel comfortable in.
A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.
If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.
It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.
Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.
Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.
My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
We have two lives; The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night; The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars.
Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.
Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.
