Stop, while ye may; suspend your mad career!
William Cowper
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles ...
GEORGE HERBERT Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
BIBLE Your path is not my path. Should we meet at the crossroads and ye be a friend, tarry a while, drink ...
VIRGINIA ALISON Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today,...
ROBERT HERRICK Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today...
ROBERT HERRICK Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smi...
ROBERT HERRICK Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye
may know how ye ought to answer ev...
BIBLE Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
BIBLE Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad
ALDOUS HUXLEY Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer ev...
BIBLE I do know it, my own. Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can...
DIANA GABALDON Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye...
BIBLE Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
ALDOUS HUXLEY No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings,
Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
ALEXANDER POPE Gather the rose buds while ye may, old time is still a flying, And that same flower that blooms toda...
JAMES THOMSON And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye sha...
BIBLE Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye ...
GEORGE FOX GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying :
And this same flower that smil...
ROBERT HERRICK If you're going to get mad at me everytime I do something stupid then I guess I'll have to stop doin...
HOMER SIMPSON 'Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air,
I heard a maid making her moan;
Said, ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye ...
GEORGE FOX Please stop undressing me with your eyes while I sit here.
BLINK 182 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fr...
BIBLE I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may...
BIBLE though it don't make you laugh outright, it may chance to make ye draw in your Lips, and shew your T...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Sometimes in your career, you are at the right place at the right moment. But you have to be aware t...
JOANNE LIU But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
BIBLE Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yo...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Anna Scott: Can I stay for a while? William: You can stay forever.
NOTTING HILL If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of f...
SAMUEL ADAMS Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
JOHN RUSKIN Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
BIBLE For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
BIBLE Allah knows how ye move about and how ye dwell in your homes,
GREGG MASTORAS Anna Scott: Can I stay for a while?
William: You can stay forever.
NOTTING HILL If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating conte...
SAMUEL ADAMS If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contes...
SAMUEL ADAMS In your patience possess ye your souls.
BIBLE People talk to pets and babies to stop themselves going mad.
JAMES SMYTHE You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were sti...
JONATHAN COE "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spiritualit...
STEVE MARABOLI Suspend Disbelief
BRIANNA KLOUTSE And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall com...
BIBLE People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are ...
NEIL KINNOCK If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of f...
SAMUEL ADAMS I may hold ye at arm's length....But I want ye t' be mine an' mine alone. - Nate to Bertie, as they ...
LISA MANTCHEV While we regret having to suspend the dividend program, management is focused on preserving the comp...
BOB ROSSITER While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde,
And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,
There music...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE You are literally never alone. While there are roughly 6.7 billion people on Earth, you may not feel...
ELIOT SCHREFER They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves.
[Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshi...
BIBLE Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear,
Remember Tam o'Shanter's mare.
JOHN BUNYAN If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating cont...
SAMUEL ADAMS Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD Never stop loving while living, when you stop loving, you stop living.
KEMI SOGUNLE Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
BIBLE Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels...
DIANA GABALDON And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep;...
BIBLE And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your ha...
BIBLE But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
BIBLE Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the ...
BIBLE Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with ...
BIBLE Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your care...
LARRY SMITH If I can’t be your love,
then let me be a simple brooch
so I may rest a while against ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds,
That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,
Bear on yo...
JOHN MILTON Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Here's the thing. Your career won't take care of you. It won...
AMY POEHLER Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea;
Ye stately foxgloves fair to see!
Ye woodbines, hanging...
ROBERT BURNS If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.
RACHEL JOYCE Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with you...
BIBLE Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of
them: otherwise ye have no reward of ...
BIBLE While day dreaming you may notice errors because your brain is multi-tasking and your attention is d...
SUNDAY ADELAJA While people may be impressed by your achievements, they are they may be more INSPIRED by WHY you di...
LORRIN L. LEE Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offeri...
BIBLE And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not...
BIBLE "May Your Irish Eyes Continue To Smile, For A Very Long While"
~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's troubl...
ADAM LINDSAY GORDON And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean
BIBLE For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.
JENNIFER DONNELLY Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye
shall eat, or what ye shall drink;...
BIBLE Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your e...
BIBLE Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that...
BIBLE The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a sch...
DEAN SMITH Give another a platform to re-invent himself/herself,because tomorrow you may need that same platfor...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You better enjoy it while you can, ... And you better watch your money, because those paychecks stop...
BRAD JOHNSON Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your th...
KAREN JOY FOWLER Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, whic...
BIBLE O Children of Men! Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt h...
BAHA'U'LLAH He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's wha...
G. K. CHESTERTON He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's wha...
G.K. CHESTERTON So I had to suspend them, too.
JOE NEWMAN While there may have been other bits of information or intelligence that would say, 'Whoa, wait a mi...
PAT ROBERTS When you stop worrying about your shortcomings, you deny your enemies, rivals, and/or competitors le...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
KARL MARX He got a little mad at me and didn't speak to me for a while.
AUDREY MOORE While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser
KARL MARX If you take action while you are mad, you will always make the wrong decision.
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WILLIAM COWPER Some to the fascination of a name,
Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
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[Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]
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WILLIAM COWPER 'Tis hard if all is false that I advance
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
WILLIAM COWPER A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
WILLIAM COWPER The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPER O solitude, where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst o...
WILLIAM COWPER Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade,
Where rumour of o...
WILLIAM COWPER I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,--
"How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude."
B...
WILLIAM COWPER A story, in which native humour reigns,
Is often useful, always entertains;
A graver fact, enl...
WILLIAM COWPER Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse,
But talking is not always to converse,
Not more d...
WILLIAM COWPER Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.
WILLIAM COWPER The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased ...
WILLIAM COWPER God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And r...
WILLIAM COWPER His wit invites you by his looks to come,
But when you knock, it never is at home.
WILLIAM COWPER Ten thousand casks,
Forever dribbling out their base contents,
Touch'd by the Midas finger of ...
WILLIAM COWPER Still ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPER We bear our shades about us; self-deprived
Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,
And rang...
WILLIAM COWPER Some boundless contiguity of shade.
WILLIAM COWPER No tree in all the grove but has its charms,
Though each its hue peculiar.
WILLIAM COWPER Discourse may want an animated "No"To brush the surface, and to make it flow;But still remember, if ...
WILLIAM COWPER Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass los...
WILLIAM COWPER Spare feast! a radish and an egg.
WILLIAM COWPER I was a stricken deer, that left the herd / Long since.
WILLIAM COWPER