Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
From morn To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star.
From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the world, And see how his stock went on.
Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.
Vice President Dick Cheney is currently out in South Dakota on a three-day hunting trip. What better place for a man who has had four heart attacks than to be carrying a big gun and a backpack through the snow looking for red meat.
Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.
Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers and sisters I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.
I heard a Stock-dove sing or say His homely tale, this very day; His voice was buried among trees, Yet to be come at by the breeze: He did not cease; but cooed--and cooed: And somewhat pensively he wooed: He sang of love, with quiet blending, Slow to begin, and never ending; Of serious faith, and inward glee; That was the song,--the song for me!
People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent ... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.
When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away, And in a dream as in a fairy bark Drift on and on through the enchanted dark To purple daybreak--little thought we pay To that sweet bitter world we know by day.
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
"Come to me, darling; I'm lonely without thee; Daytime and nighttime I'm dreaming about thee."
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true.
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. -Edgar Allan Poe.
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