Irish Poet Quotes

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."

"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."

"Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"

"One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others."

"The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself."

"The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete."

"Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it."

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."

"One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him."

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."

"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."

"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox."