Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes and Quotations
And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.
All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
Whatever is-is best.
With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.
Though smooth be the heartless prayer, no ear in heaven will mind it; And the finest phrase falls dead, if there is no feeling behind it.
There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
Day's sweetest moments are at dawn.
It is easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile, when everything goes dead wrong.
Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.
No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate; As the voyage along thru life; 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
The two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean.
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong.