Quotes by John Godfrey Saxe

“I asked of Echo 't other day(Whose words are few and often funny),What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, — Matter-o'-money.”

“'T is wise to learn; 't is God-like to create.”

“A youth would marry a maiden, For fair and fond was she; But she was rich, and he was poor, And so it might not be.”

“A youth would marry a maiden, For fair and fond was she; But he was high and she was low, And so it might not be.”

“A youth would marry a maiden, For fair and fond was she; But their sires disputed about the Mass, And so it might not be.”

“Bless me! this is pleasantRiding on the Rail.”

“The Poet's License! — 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To ...”

“When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, — To whom it may concern! And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, — though an...”

“In battle or business, whatever the game, In law or in love, it is ever the same; In the struggle for power, or the scramble for pelf, Let this be your motto, — Rely on yourself! For, whether the p...”