Songs Sayings & Quotes
These songs sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Written down, it doesn't seem a very good song, but coming through pale fawn fluff at about half-past eleven on a very sunny morning, it seemed to Pooh to be one of the best songs he had ever sung. So he went on singing it. [The House at Pooh Corner] - Alan Alexander Milne
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening, People writing songs that voices never share, and no one dare disturb the Sound of Silence. - Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. - Matthew Prior
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow? - Jalal-Uddin Rumi
I don't know where my songs come from. If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane. - Judy Collins
Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy; Dreams cannot picture a world so fair, Sorrow and death may not enter there; Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom, For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb, It is there, it is there, my child! - Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. - Mark Twain
We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we Will drink to him, whate'er he be, And sing the songs he loved to hear. - Lord Alfred Tennyson
Listen to that song, and learn it! Half my kingdom would I give, As I live, If by such songs you would earn it. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now; your gambols, your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come. - William Shakespeare
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs? - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that. - Bob Dylan
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. - John Muir
Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample, Catullus scarcely has a decent poem, I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example, Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample; But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one Being with 'Formosum Pastor Corydon. - Lord Byron
Wood-pigeons cooed there, stock-doves nestled there; My trees were full on songs and flowers and fruit, Their branches spread a city to the air. - Christina Georgina Rossetti
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. - Joan Baez
, Political Activist God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery. - Mason Cooley
Songs consecrate to truth and liberty. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these? Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught The dialect they speak, where melodies Alone are the interpreters of thought? Whose household words are songs in many keys, Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow