Home › By Author › Wm. R. Alger
Quotes by Wm. R. Alger
An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes; A smile within his eyelids plays And into words his longing gushes.— filed under Blushes
Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.— filed under Content
A thousand years a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise: But while one little nap he snatched, It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?— filed under Disappointment
Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.— filed under Drinking
As two floating planks meet and part on the sea, O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.— filed under Meeting
The moon is a silver pin-head vast, That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.— filed under Monuments
P. In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.— filed under Paradise
With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.— filed under Patience
God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.— filed under Proverbs
In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.— filed under Rest
Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.— filed under Royalty
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.— filed under Temperance
A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one; Turn full upon me thy eye, - Ah, how its wavelets drown one! A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark-sun! A black eye is the best one.— filed under Eyes