Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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• On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mind
  • Moral
  • Pleasure

• I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • I Hope
  • Occasion
  • Incline

• At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it.

  

  Epictetus
  • Life
  • Forget
  • Occasion

• Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wind
  • Fair
  • Sails

• Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Philosophical
  • Occasion
  • Misunderstanding

• Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Opposition
  • Occasion
  • Enmity

• Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Laughter
  • Glory
  • Hopes

• And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Business
  • Hopeless
  • Occasion

• There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • My Life
  • Romance
  • Endurance

• Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Silent
  • Occasion
  • Trivial

• The reason why we're warriors is that we rise to the occasion; anyone that's felt like the system put them down, and then they rose to the occasion, they're a warrior. It's not about whether you come from the hood or you come from the suburbs, you know what I mean? It's about reality and life.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Hood

• Life is an occasion...rise to it.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Life
  • Occasion

• Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sea
  • Reflection
  • Sails

• In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Understand
  • Occasion
  • Turn Away

• I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

  

  Sidney Poitier
  • Color
  • Human
  • Occasion

• On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

  

  William Scott
  • Ideas
  • Painting
  • Occasion

• A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Memory
  • Occasion

• I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Ball
  • Trained
  • Sails

• Yes, Harry Potter!” said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. “And if Dobby does it wrong, Dobby will throw himself off the topmost tower, Harry Potter!” “There won’t be any need for that,” said Harry hastily.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Eyes

• Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Government
  • Laws

• The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea and I can pretty much execute it. As old as I am now and as long as I've been doing it, I can pretty much get it done in a week. While a filmmaker has a great idea that should be out tomorrow, but he has to go through this process of getting financing, then selling it, then casting. I've always been in awe of filmmakers and their patience in realizing their vision because I could never do that.

  

  Mike Patton Faith No More
  • Patience
  • Musician
  • Filmmaker

• Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Occasion
  • Sails
  • Bygones