Bret Harte Quotes (16 Quotes)

And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

It is I--O love, what bliss!

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, 'It might have been, More sad are these we daily see It is, but hadnt ought to be.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

Drop down, O fleecy Fog and hide; Her skeptic sneer, and all her pride.

Dost thou answer to my kiss?

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out of a great many smaller ones

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Thiar aint no sense In gittin riled.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers