P. J. Bailey Quotes

See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

Could I love less, I should be happier now.

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

Love spends his all, and still hath store.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!

True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.

Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.

Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.

Death is another life.

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

We weep when we are born, Not when we die!

After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.

The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?

When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

Hebe's here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny; And the miser-bees are busy Hoarding golden honey.

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square.

People say 'Bill, are you an optimist?' And I say, 'I hope so.'

So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!

I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine

I don't worry about getting tired. I try not to let it guide me as far as how much I'm going to play. I play with my heart.

It's brilliant to get recognition. The CFDA was magic because it's such a big award in our industry. There's nothing more flattering than being honored by your peers.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

In France they don't think I'm difficult.

I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

Always educate yourself.

Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.

The quality of news coverage has diminished, because giants of the print media are no longer being nurtured properly.

The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.

I was always a great believer in starting at the top. I really think that focusing on a career and working your way up is way way way overestimated.

When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.

Saying youre from Texas makes you kind of proud.

I do think women generally are more humble.

I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.