If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.Quote by Robert Graves about poetry, money
In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.Quote by Robert Graves about love, sport
We are born to be a grave next to a grave, to whisper ourselves words of love.Quote by Ionuț Caragea about destiny, word, love
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about difficulties, beauty, poetry
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.Quote by Francis Bacon about limits, god
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.Quote by Honoré de Balzac about pleasure
Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.Quote by George W. Bush about destruction, danger, world
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered...Quote by Orson Scott about nation, light, war
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.Quote by Charles Dickens about season, progress, night, nature, time
I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about recollection, things
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.Quote by Blaise Pascal about pleasure, security, faith, moral
We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.Quote by John Pearson about old, people, rest, nothing, life
Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.Quote by Pericles about time, man
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.Quote by Thomas Browne about people, man
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.Quote by Thomas Hardy about woman