Torquato Tasso famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!
-- Torquato Tasso

#Heart #Love Is #Persons
Any time not spent on love is wasted.
-- Torquato Tasso

#Life #Love Is
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
-- Torquato Tasso

#Love #Cute #Missing You
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
-- Torquato Tasso

#Names #Merit #Poet
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
-- Torquato Tasso

#Doors #Fortune #Accompany
O happy, golden age! Not for that rivers ran With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees
-- Torquato Tasso

#Rivers #Tree #Age
Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame
-- Torquato Tasso

#Sports #Peace #Spring
Not for no cold did freeze, Nor any cloud beguile Th'eternal flowering spring
-- Torquato Tasso

#Spring #Clouds #Youth
A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate. [It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa, Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]
-- Torquato Tasso

#Men #Fool #Debate
Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile, They will, they will not; fools that on them trust; For in their speech is death, hell in their smile. [It., Femmina e cosa garrula e fallace: Vuole e disvuole, e folle uom chi sen fida, Si tra se volge.]
-- Torquato Tasso

#Women #Heart #Crafts
O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,--a thing soon done, for nature framed all women to be won.
-- Torquato Tasso

#Humble #Winning #Done
Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.
-- Torquato Tasso

#Sleep #Ease #Virtue
For when last need to desperation driveth, Who dareth most he wiseth counsel giveth. [It., Che spesso avvien che ne' maggior perigli Son piu audaci gli ottimi consigli.]
-- Torquato Tasso

#Son #Advice #Lasts
Horror itself in that fair scene looks gay, And joy springs up e'en in the midst of fear. [It., Bello in si bella vista anco e l'orrore, E di mezzo la tema esce il diletto.]
-- Torquato Tasso

#Fear #Spring #Gay
They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies. [Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte. Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.]
-- Torquato Tasso

#Wise #Sky #Heaven
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
-- Torquato Tasso

#Corn #Busy #Harvest
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
-- Torquato Tasso

#Courage #Men #Years
As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.
-- Torquato Tasso

#Air #Gleam #Sanguine
Lost is the time that you don't spend for love.
-- Torquato Tasso

#Lost
A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.
-- Torquato Tasso

#Friends #Trouble
Perhaps if only once you did enjoy The thousandth part of all the happiness A heart beloved enjoys, returning love, Repentant, you would surely sighing say, â€œAll time is truly lost and gone Which is not spent in serving love.â€
-- Torquato Tasso

#Heart #Gone #Beloved
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
-- Torquato Tasso

#Should #Fortune
He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
-- Torquato Tasso

#Littles #Truth Love
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
-- Torquato Tasso

#Love #Heartbreak #Doe

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