Provokes me always to pursue

But spirit-like, eludes embrace.


Patmore

Spirits

There's nought , no dout , so much the spirits calms As rum & true religion.

Lord Byron

Mr Whitman's Venus is a Hottentot wench under the influence of cantharides and adulterated rum.

Whitmania: Studies in prose and poetry.

Rum

Fifteen men on a dead mans chest Yo-ho-ho-& a bottle of Rum! Drink & the devil had done for the rest_ Yo-ho-ho & a bottle of Rum !

Robert Louis Stevenson

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of...
Mom's old-fashioned cider!
Mom's old-fashioned cider!

- Yosimite Sam, the Pirate

I heard a sound as of scraping tripe,

And putting apples wondrous ripe,

Into a cider-press's gripe.



The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

ripe

If you trap the moment before it's ripe,
The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe;

But if once you let the ripe moment go
You can never wipe off the tears of woe

~ William Blake

Q: does the quote have to come from a well klnown author or can it be one of your own? :)

Well the originator of this thread doesn't come here anymore, but I think her intent is for this to be quotes from authors, playwrights, songwriters, and such... although I think there may have been the occasional self quote thrown in once in a while. :D

Ps, Welcome to Pixies

Off

Off with his head!

~The Queen of Hearts-

off

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with

~ W.C. Fields

then I think poetic licence is warranted and I may add my own thoughts.

'When the passion subsided and the moment was best
you kissed me gently falling into peaceful loving rest'.

subsided (s)

Natures first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf's a flower
But only so an hour
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay
-Robert Frost

Flowers

Gather the flowers , but spare the buds.

Andrew Marvel

Mr Speaker I smell a rat, I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky, but I'll nip him in the bud.

Sir Boyle Roche

rat(s)

RATS!
They fought the dogs & killed the cats , & bit the babies in the cradle .

Robert Browing

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Anon

rules

It is much safer to obey than to rule ..

Thomas Kempis

rule

Remember the golden rule. Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

The Wizard of Id

Golden

Sleep is that golden chaine that ties health & our bodies together.

Thomas Dekker

O little town of Bethlehem

How still we see thee lie,

Above thy deep and dreamless sleep

The silent stars go by.

(hymn)

Stars


Each time we have a quarrel
It almost breaks my heart..
Because I'm so afraid..
That we will have to part..
Each night I ask the stars up above..
Why must I be a teenager in love...

-Dion

heart

The way to a man's heart is through his back.

Hey I read this under my Leo horoscope!

Heart

What comes from the heart , goes to the heart .

Samuel T. Coleridge

Comes

Something wicked this way comes.

Wicked

I never wonder to see men wicked , but I often wonder to see them not ashamed .

Jonathan Swift

worship is transcendant wonder.

Carlisle

Worship
 

Buisiness underlies everything in our nationial life ,including our spiritual life . Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer the first petition is for daily bread . No one can WORSHIP God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach .

Wodrow Wilson

:D

Batchelor's fare, bread and cheese and kisses.

Jonathan Swift.

Bachelors

Never trust a husband too far ,nor a bachelor too near .

Helen Rowland

There's no art

To find the mind's construction in the face.

He was a gentleman on whom I built

An absolute trust.

The Scottish Play.

Gentlemen

Women do not find it difficult nowdays to be have like men ; but they ofeten find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

Compton Mackenzie

Wait for it, been saving this one.

A woman is a foreign land,

Of which, though there he settle young,

A man will ne'er quite understand,

The customs, politics, and tongue.



Coventry Patmore (whoever he was)

Custom
 

But to my mind , though I am native here And to the manner born , it is a custom . More honour'd in the breach than the observance .

William Shakespeare

:rolleyes:

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,

or close the wall up with our English dead.

Henry V

Wall
 

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall ,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall .
All the king's horses ,
And all the king's men ,
Couldn't put Humpty together again .

Gammer Gurton's Garland
R. Christopher
:cool:

men

His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of curiosity

And I looked, and behold, a pale horse,

And his name that sat on him was Death.

That other book.

Horse

I know two things about the horse , & one of them is rather coarse .