Quotes
Quotes about Pen
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
A penny for your thoughts.
They say a carpenter's known by his chips.
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Were you with these, my prince, you 'd soon forget
The pale, unripened beauties of the north.
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!
Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour.
Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
Prayer ardent opens heaven.
Accept a miracle instead of wit,--
See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.
First, then, a woman will or won't, depend on 't;
If she will do 't, she will; and there's an end on 't.
But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is,
Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice.
Together let us beat this ample field,
Try what the open, what the covert yield.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
And hence one master-passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Some to church repair,
Not for the doctrine, but the music there.
These equal syllables alone require,
Though oft the ear the open vowels tire;
While expletives their feeble aid to join,
And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
Most authors steal their works, or buy;
Garth did not write his own Dispensary.
Is there a parson much bemused in beer,
A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer,
A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,
Who pens a stanza when he should engross?
While pensive poets painful vigils keep,
Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep.
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And heard thy everlasting yawn confess
The pains and penalties of idleness.
Note 37.See Spenser, Quotation 1.
Note 55.See Spenser, Quotation 22.
But Titus said, with his uncommon sense,
When the Exclusion Bill was in suspense:
"I hear a lion in the lobby roar;
Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door
And keep him there, or shall we let him in
To try if we can turn him out again?"
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."
Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest.
Penny saved is a penny got.
