• Posters
• Wallpaper

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

White in the moon the long road lies.

A. E. Housman

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Prevoius| Next

More A. E. Housman Quotes

• 

  Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

  A. E. HOUSMAN
  DieHopeIronyLessonLifeLyingMemoryShameWarWish
• 

  I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

  A. E. HOUSMAN
  AnimalDefinitionMyselfPoetry
• 

  I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.

  A. E. HOUSMAN
  ChooseRidWords
• 

  Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

  A. E. HOUSMAN
  ActExperienceMemoryMorningPoetrySkinTeaching
• 

  In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

  A. E. HOUSMAN
  ConcealCountryCunning
• 

  You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover’s say, And happy is the lover. ‘Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.

  A. E. HOUSMAN
  DeathExcellenceFriendshipLiveLoverMyselfSmile
• 

  Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

  A. E. HOUSMAN
  GriefLandLoveMyselfStandTree
• 

  The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.

  A. E. HOUSMAN
  AloneHattonLyingMidnightOrionProneRainStrikeWester
• 

  The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.

  A. E. HOUSMAN
• 

  The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

  A. E. HOUSMAN
  AverageConservatismCriticismMan
• 

  There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then ’twas the Roman, now ’tis I.

  A. E. HOUSMAN
• 

  Clay lies still, but blood’s a rover; Breath’s aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey’s over then there’ll be time enough to sleep.

  A. E. HOUSMAN
• 

  Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

  A. E. HOUSMAN
  BusinessLifeMenMotivationThinkThinkingYoung
• 

  But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame’s to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I’ll be there.

  A. E. HOUSMAN
  BornDangerousDeathGuiltyMyselfRoadShameShareSoul
• 

  Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.

  A. E. HOUSMAN
  GoodnessSickWorld
• 

  The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

  A. E. HOUSMAN
  HappinessHappyJoyMindSatisfySoul