Quotes by Robert Browning
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.
'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
We loved, sir - used to meet: how sad and bad and mad it was - but the, how it was sweet!
Love is energy of life.
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up.
Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
O lyric Love, half-angel and half-bird and all a wonder and a wild desire.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
God is the perfect poet.
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
And gain is gain, however small.
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
