Ella Wheeler Wilcox
49 quotes
Biography
"A weed is but an unloved flower."
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,But has trouble enough of its own."
"We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest;And deal full many a thoughtless blow,To those who love us best."
"Feast, and your halls are crowdedFast, and the world goes bySucceed and give, and it helps you liveBut no man can help you die"
"How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair"
"It is impossible to pursue a successful literary career and follow the advice of all one's 'best friends'. I feel compelled to follow the light which my own intellect & judgement cast upon my way, rather than any one of the many conflicting rays which other minds would lend me."
"You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart."
"With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!"
"The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs."
"It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death."
"The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith."
"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong."
"When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view."
"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it."
"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it."
"And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears."
"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong."
"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."
"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it."
"I love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire"
"We two make banquets of the plainest fareIn every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measureWe two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure"
"A poor original is better than a good imitation."
"Laugh and the world laughs with you weep and you weep alone."
"It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his packBut no one can rate a burden's weightUntil it has been on his back"