John Godfrey Saxe Quotes

What Lowely meant she didn't know
For she always avoided "everything low,"

In vain I speak of urgent tasks;
In vain I scowl and pout;
A frown is no extinguisher — It does not put him out!

"Once more, my gallant boys!" he cried:
"Three times! — you know the fable, — (I'll make it thirty," muttered he, "But I will lay the cable!")

Young men! it 's a critical thing to go
Exactly right with a lady in tow;
But when you are in the proper track,
Just go ahead, and never look back!

Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.

He takes the strangest liberties — But never takes his leave!

I like the lad who, when his father thought
To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase
Of vagrant worm by early songster caught,
Cried, "Served him right! — it's not at all surprising;
The worm was punished, sir, for early rising!"

"God bless the man who first invented sleep!"
So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink,
But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

Las leyes, como las salchichas, dejan de inspirar respeto en proporción a cuánto sabemos de cómo están hechas

NAY, weep not, dearest, though the child be dead;
He lives again in Heaven's unclouded life,

The Poet's License! — 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. <p> To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, — And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest.

Don't use strong drink, — pray let me advise, — It 's bad for the stomach, and ruins the eyes;

A youth would marry a maiden, For fair and fond was she; But he was high and she was low, And so it might not be.

But blast the man, with curses loud and deep,
Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station,
Who first invented, and went round advising,
That artificial cut-off, — Early Rising!