Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
IAN MCKEEVER Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No one wants to watch their child die before they do.
SHANE HENDRICKSON You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am
infinitely inferior to the swans....
SOCRATES All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
JAMES THURBER Die before you die, there is no chance after.
C.S. LEWIS All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
JAMES THURBER Sing a Song before you can Sing some Song ~
SAVE-LAGU.COM Before i die many will die with me and they will deserve it. See you in hell.
KURT COBAIN Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
ERICH FROMM The four principal oral instructors to whom I feel my mind indebted for improvement were Joseph Fawc...
WILLIAM GODWIN Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
HENNY YOUNGMAN Aunt Dottie and Aunt Mae would get up there and sing the same song - 'I was drunk last night, dear M...
JOYCE GIBSON He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing.
DARRELL ROYAL A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
BEN JONSON There's a gang of boys on bikes blocking the road ahead. They've got their hoods up, cigarettes shie...
JENNY DOWNHAM awake, then die
in the arms of a modified lover
sleep, then dream
in the absence o...
A.P. SWEET If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend
ALBERT EINSTEIN Fresh is best.
DIE BOOTH Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no s...
SAFAK PAVEY Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to m...
DAVID ANTIN Don't die before you're dead...
PADDICK VAN ZYL (They are unknown) because they had no bard to sing their praises.
UNKNOWN My mom always says I could sing before I could talk.
MICHELLE AMMERMAN I could sing before I could talk, Everything's Gonna Be Alright.
SHARON LEWIS Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die o...
PIERS CORBYN I'm not kidding when I say they hope you die before they have to do anything for you. That's the tru...
GLENN WILLIAMS And over the pond are sailing
Two swans all white as snow;
Sweet voices mysteriously wailing
...
HEINRICH HEINE They want a Beatles song, people want us to sing, they want me to sing?
CHERIE BLAIR The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we s...
ERICH FROMM Why kill me before I die?
KARAN PATADE I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.
SID VICIOUS When you're insecure about your technique, you close yourself off. Your shoulders tighten. The f...
MARCELLO GIORDANI My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the ...
AARON NEVILLE Sing, Sing a song, Sing out loud, Sing out strong, Sing of good things, not bad, Sing of happy, not ...
JOE RAPOSO Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice...
BABYFACE Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with ...
UMBERTO ECO They say when you're about to die, you see your entire life flash before your eyes.
They lied....
SHERRILYN KENYON Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I ...
EARL KING They bring a letter stating that they're a student in good standing, ... and then they come in and t...
KAY HENDERSON Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others di...
UMBERTO ECO It's good family entertainment. They are unique in their own right because of what they sing and how...
CHARLIE SAMPLES I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and ...
JAKOB DYLAN I'd like to see Paris before I die... Philadelphia will do.
W. C. FIELDS I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.
RICHARD WRIGHT Never mourn the rich but stingy persons when they die,rather be glad that death has taught them to g...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear.
Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear;
Harsh are...
JAMES BEATTIE Then they began to sing
That extremely lovely thing,
"Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp."
WILLIAM S. GILBERT However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.
ERIC HOFFER We all sing, but it's no secret, they really have the greatest voices out of all of us. And they sin...
CECE WINANS What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked la...
ROBERT E. HOWARD I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they r...
NINA HAGEN Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
JULIUS CAESAR Maybe when we die, the first thing we’ll say is, 'I know this feeling. I was here before.
DON DELILLO Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned,
and consigned to oblivion, because ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything the...
ANDREA GIBSON It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before t...
ANDY WARHOL Humans have taken the wrong sight,they should enjoy life as they won't die one day.Nevertheless,we s...
NISHI DE SILVA It's an honor for [Lee] and cool for me to step in and be seen a little bit. Anytime I can come up a...
BRANDON SING I remember coming to this when I was a kid. Now I see the total effect this fundraiser has on so man...
BRANDON SING It couldn't have worked out any better than it did today.
BRANDON SING It couldn't have worked out any better than it did today. The first at-bat I was trying not to be to...
BRANDON SING Martha Stewart stuffed and roasted canaries and found they
could no longer sing.
JAY LENO Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachment...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Sing to your mountains because as you sing, they are being cast into the sea.As you sing, the portal...
SHERRY K. WHITE And because I am happy and dance and sing,They think they have done me no injury.
WILLIAM BLAKE No one should die alone.
ALLY CONDIE Maybe before you die, it's your ghosts you see.
LAUREN OLIVER Don’t you want to be alive before you die?
ANTHONY DOERR I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just ...
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO I think the thing that has to be clear is these guys can sing. The comedy is great; the harmony, fan...
GLENN CASALE Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- ...
ECKHART TOLLE Yet let me kiss my lord before I die, / And let me die with kissing of my lord.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Op die manier is de elektrische stoel uitgevonden. Uitgedokterd door Edison die de gevaren van de wi...
PAUL AUSTER I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd bett...
COLIN TREVORROW We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we
laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable ...
S. I. HAYAKAWA We think . . . that girls ought to sing. They ought to sing, and dance while they're singing. But...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE When mosquitoes work, they bite and then they sing
MALAYAN PROVERB It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's...
TERRY PRATCHETT This particular stand has an unusually high number of surviving chestnut saplings, ... Most of our A...
BOB LEWIS This particular stand has an unusually high number of surviving chestnut saplings. Most of our Ameri...
BOB LEWIS I tease her all the time because she'll need to take an afternoon off here and there to sing at some...
CHERYL ANDERSON I've never been in a competition before, and I said I'm going to go. I think - I just love t...
FANTASIA BARRINO My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and thing...
MILEY CYRUS I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC bec...
ERYKAH BADU I really thought she was going to die before I could tell her that I was going to die, too.
JOHN GREEM You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
HANK WILLIAMS I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
LENA HORNE I don't know if you guys have heard this one before, but if you have, sing along,
KELLY CLARKSON No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
TERRY PRATCHETT They sing, they will pay.
[Fr., Ils chantent, ils payeront.]
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW What do they want me to sing?
CHERIE BLAIR Everybody lies, everybody dies; the only certain things in our present world.
MICHAL BACA
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies
And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his steep course?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE And the spring comes slowly up this way.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Summer has set in with its usual severity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is s...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry: the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The bride hath paced into the hall, / Red as a rose is she.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: / At one stride comes the dark.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the br...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He saw a cottage with a double coach house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with mus...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the substances of my life.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman wor...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Knight's bones are dust, / And his good sword rust; - / His soul is with the saints, I trust.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weap...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the m...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the fi...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No man does anything from a single motive
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE We were a ghastly crew.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE