Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or be...
LOUIS MACNEICE In January 1921, I found myself wonderfully alone in an empty carriage in a rocking train in the nig...
LOUIS MACNEICE Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Cl...
LOUIS MACNEICE The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no...
LOUIS MACNEICE World is suddener than we fancy it.
LOUIS MACNEICE A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, canno...
LOUIS MACNEICE A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help f...
LOUIS MACNEICE All the arts, to varying degrees, involve some kind of a compromise. This being so, how far need the...
LOUIS MACNEICE My stepmother appeared when I was about 9. My brother was sent off to an institute in Scotland &...
LOUIS MACNEICE The sunlight in the gardenHardens and grows cold,We cannot cage the minuteWithin its nets of gold
LOUIS MACNEICE Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His critici...
LOUIS MACNEICE I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
LOUIS MACNEICE For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community di...
LOUIS MACNEICE Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that ins...
LOUIS MACNEICE Dublin was hardly worried by the war; her old preoccupations were still preoccupations. The intellig...
LOUIS MACNEICE The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist...
LOUIS MACNEICE Though I do regard the Inquisition in general and the burning of Giordano Bruno in particular as blo...
LOUIS MACNEICE Some day I shall write a novel and call it 'A Walking Tour in the Congo' or 'Thrills and...
LOUIS MACNEICE We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how the...
LOUIS MACNEICE Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.
LOUIS MACNEICE Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or be...
LOUIS MACNEICE So they were married-to be the more together- And found they were never again so much together, Divi...
LOUIS MACNEICE Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is q...
LOUIS MACNEICE Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and mos...
LOUIS MACNEICE I am 33 years old, and what can I have been doing that I still am in a muddle? But everyone else is,...
LOUIS MACNEICE The teapot takes in water and gives out tea. So the human individual takes in anything you give him ...
LOUIS MACNEICE The Sunlight on the Garden

The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
W...
LOUIS MACNEICE Nearly all children have a feeling for rhythm in words, for the delicate pattern of nursery rhymes. ...
LOUIS MACNEICE The poet has no greater number of muscles than the ordinary conversationalist; he merely has more hi...
LOUIS MACNEICE My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts.
LOUIS MACNEICE When I went to bed as a child, I was told, 'You don't know where you'll wake up.' Wh...
LOUIS MACNEICE Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.
LOUIS MACNEICE Crumbling between the fingers, under the feet, / Crumbling behind the eyes, / Their world gives way ...
LOUIS MACNEICE Our freedom as free lances
advances toward its end;
The earth compels, upon it
Sonnets a...
LOUIS MACNEICE The sunlight in the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
We cannot cage the minute
Within its ...
LOUIS MACNEICE Offending people is a necessary and healthy act. Every time you say something that's offensive to an...
LOUIS C.K. (LOUIS SZEKELY) I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I wr...
LOUIS L'AMOUR What the people are within, the buildings express without.
LOUIS SULLIVAN Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!
LOUIS TOMLINSON A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
LOUIS NIZER To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.
LOUIS L'AMOUR You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.&#...
LOUIS KAHN I grew up in Doncaster and have felt the love for football run through the town; it's for that r...
LOUIS TOMLINSON My favorite moment is when someone says, 'I like 'Unleashed.' 'Now You See Me' i...
LOUIS LETERRIER I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.
LOUIS TOMLINSON As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Eva...
LOUIS THEROUX L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British peop...
LOUIS THEROUX You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and P...
LOUIS PASTEUR Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
LOUIS UNTERMEYER I think Donald Trump's had a pattern of leaping on the bandwagon of anything that he feels will ...
LOUIS THEROUX You blows who you is.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down i...
LOUIS STOKES If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
LOUIS BRANDEIS Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
LOUIS L'AMOUR The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result o...
LOUIS PASTEUR If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you i...
LOUIS ZAMPERINI Look after your body, because I'm 44, and things are happening that I never dreamed of - like ba...
LOUIS THEROUX A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
LOUIS L'AMOUR After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but ...
LOUIS NAVELLIER I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about...
LOUIS ARAGON Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious ...
LOUIS ARAGON Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
LOUIS BRANDEIS Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.
LOUIS GINSBERG A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER When I approach a child
He inspires in me two sentiments:
Tenderness for what he is,
And r...
LOUIS PASTEUR When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had com...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
LOUIS XIV Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...
LOUIS C.K. Pamela, I’m in love with you. Yeah, it’s that bad. You’re so beautiful to me. Shut up! Lemme t...
LOUIS C.K. The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...
LOUIS C.K. Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current wi...
LOUIS SACHAR It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only ...
LOUIS SACHAR Perhaps it's understandable to be more jaded on one's second exposure to something strange.
LOUIS THEROUX A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realist, and their tactics ar...
LOUIS L'AMOUR A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you ha...
LOUIS L'AMOUR I am the state.
LOUIS XIV A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
LOUIS NIZER Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
LOUIS FISCHER In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water...
LOUIS NIZER Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
LOUIS XIV Laughter shall drown the raucous shout;
And, though these shelt
LOUIS UNTERMEYER The trouble with America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned t...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek ...
LOUIS BINSTOCK There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that whe...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and the movements and changes in the ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
LOUIS L'AMOUR Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriou...
LOUIS KAPLAN There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles
LOUIS L'AMOUR Nothing but blackness above
And nothing that moves but the cars...
God, if you wish for our lo...
LOUIS UNTERMEYER When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.
LOUIS BINSTOCK Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfacto...
LOUIS BINSTOCK Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads ...
LOUIS BINSTOCK From compromise and things half done,
Keep me with stern and stubborn pride,
And when at last...
LOUIS UNTERMEYER Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
LOUIS PASTEUR There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
LOUIS XIV It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
LOUIS KOSSUTH Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again a...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
LOUIS PASTEUR In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
LOUIS KRONENBERGER What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
LOUIS DUDEK One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so muc...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically system...
LOUIS ARAGON O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, n...
LOUIS ARAGON There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
LOUIS ARAGON I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
LOUIS AGASSIZ It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms.
LOUIS DEBONNAIRE Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania f...
LOUIS ARAGON Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an obliviou...
LOUIS ARAGON Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled o...
LOUIS ARAGON There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the ...
LOUIS DUDEK In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
LOUIS PASTEUR What we play is life.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to fla...
LOUIS ARAGON The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
LOUIS ARAGON We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
LOUIS ARAGON In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who lo...
LOUIS CASSELS The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit ...
LOUIS ARAGON Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
LOUIS XVIII What hymns are sung.
What praises said.
For homemade miracles of bread?
LOUIS UNTERMEYER Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.
JOE LOUIS Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
LOUIS ARAGON Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
LOUIS XIV There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!
LOUIS ARMSTRONG The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which h...
HENRY LOUIS A king should die on his feet.
LOUIS XVIII I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of...
LOUIS ARAGON As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.
LOUIS BROMFIELD I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je...
LOUIS XIII In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who l...
LOUIS CASSELS Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the hu...
LOUIS GERSTNER From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at las...
LOUIS UNTERMEYER Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled ...
LOUIS ARAGON The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
LOUIS BRANDEIS Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
LOUIS NIZER Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a litt...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
LOUIS PASTEUR In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.
LOUIS PASTEUR In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice
LOUIS KRONENBERGER When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing...
LOUIS NIZER A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still s...
LOUIS LECOIN In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
LOUIS PASTEUR Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.
LOUIS SCHWARTZBERG Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
LOUIS PASTEUR I think of myself as being quite affable, approachable, fairly easy to get to know.
LOUIS THEROUX Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surve...
LOUIS STOKES There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.
LOUIS THEROUX The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly whe...
LOUIS XIV We have a double agenda of trying to deliver something exciting that people will talk about and will...
LOUIS THEROUX It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the ...
LOUIS SULLIVAN I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe.
LOUIS FARRAKHAN I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing s...
LOUIS SACHAR My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't...
LOUIS TOMLINSON I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books...
LOUIS L'AMOUR To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature so...
LOUIS TOMLINSON Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
LOUIS KAHN Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates ...
LOUIS PASTEUR It is legal because I wish it.
LOUIS XIV A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being...
LOUIS KAHN Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.
LOUIS ZAMPERINI Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.
LOUIS BONAPARTE A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER As for restitutions, to nobody in particular do I owe any, but as for those I owe to the realm, I ho...
LOUIS XIV You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills ...
LOUIS XIV That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.
LOUIS XIV Always follow good counsels.
LOUIS XIV The Pyrenees are no more.
LOUIS XIV My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered on...
LOUIS XIV Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
LOUIS XIV I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness ...
LOUIS XIV We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.
LOUIS XIV I am dying, but the state remains.
LOUIS XIV It is impossible to please all the world.
LOUIS XIV I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
LOUIS XIV My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, ...
LOUIS XIV Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.
LOUIS XIV The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves a...
LOUIS XIV First feelings are always the most natural.
LOUIS XIV Fortune favors the prepared mind.
LOUIS PASTEUR Art is anything people do with distinction.
LOUIS DUDEK Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had bee...
LOUIS L'AMOUR My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothe...
LOUIS BACON For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biograph...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates ...
LOUIS PASTEUR Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were ...
LOUIS ARMSTRONG