Robert Browning famous quotes

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
-- Robert Browning

#Love #Life #Positive

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
-- Robert Browning

#Love #Life #Friendship

A minute of success pays for years of failure.
-- Robert Browning

#Years #Pay #Minutes

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
-- Robert Browning

#Love #Anniversary #I Like You

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
-- Robert Browning

#Fall #Eye #Laughing

He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.
-- Robert Browning

#War #Wells

Love is the energy of life.
-- Robert Browning

#Love #Love Life #Love Is

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.
-- Robert Browning

#Golf #Three #Way

To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
-- Robert Browning

#Life #Giving #World

Good to forgive, Best to forget.
-- Robert Browning

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #Forget

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
-- Robert Browning

#Soul #Earth

God is the perfect poet.
-- Robert Browning

#Godly #Perfect #Poetry

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
-- Robert Browning

#Love #Valentines Day #Fall

Graved inside of it, "Italy".
-- Robert Browning

So free we seem, so fettered we are!
-- Robert Browning

#Freedom

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
-- Robert Browning

#Ambition #Comfort

Love is energy of life.
-- Robert Browning

#Love #Self Improvement #Energy

Truth never hurts the teller.
-- Robert Browning

#Hurt #Truth

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
-- Robert Browning

#Lying #Heart #Brain

Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
-- Robert Browning

#Rome

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
-- Robert Browning

#Beauty #Attitude #Simple

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
-- Robert Browning

#Broken Heart #Perfect #Heaven

The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its best to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up and all the cottage warm;
-- Robert Browning

#Rain #Heart #Wind

I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.
-- Robert Browning

#Gains #Want #Might

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
-- Robert Browning

#Life #Fate #Trying

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
-- Robert Browning

#Music #Solitude #Feels

Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy.'
-- Robert Browning

#Heart #My Heart

A minute's success pays the failure of years.
-- Robert Browning

#Inspirational #Success #Softball

Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.
-- Robert Browning

#Inspiring #Nature #Autumn

Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
-- Robert Browning

#Gymnastics #Break #Endeavor

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
-- Robert Browning

#Courage #Fall #Sleep

There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.
-- Robert Browning

#Light #Way #Splendor

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
-- Robert Browning

#God #Perfect #Creation

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
-- Robert Browning

#Love #Children #Men

My sun sets to rise again.
-- Robert Browning

#Sunrise #Sun #Sun Set

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
-- Robert Browning

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.
-- Robert Browning

#Love #Birthday #Anniversary

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
-- Robert Browning

#True Love #Waiting #Forever

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
-- Robert Browning

#Kissing #Romantic Love #Teenage Love

To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day.
-- Robert Browning

#Evening

I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
-- Robert Browning

#Life #Soul #Trying

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning

#Splendour

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
-- Robert Browning

#Mind #Great Minds #Gentleness

Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
-- Robert Browning

#Afterlife #Sun #Daylight

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
-- Robert Browning

#Being Yourself #Being Single #Acceptance

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
-- Robert Browning

#Trust #Time #Spring

Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.
-- Robert Browning

#Marriage #Persons #Findings

If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.
-- Robert Browning

#Stars #Heaven #Bread

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
-- Robert Browning

#Sweet #Reflection #Mad

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
-- Robert Browning

#Art #Truth #Mouths

Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!
-- Robert Browning

#Men #Wings #Soul

That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.
-- Robert Browning

#Hands #Spirit #Brows

Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride.
-- Robert Browning

#Joy #Riding

Why stay on the earth except to grow.
-- Robert Browning

#Learning #Earth #Grows

Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.
-- Robert Browning

#Morning #England #April

So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!
-- Robert Browning

#Lunch #Breakfast #Dinner

Look not down but up!
-- Robert Browning

#Inspirational #Looks

But facts are facts and flinch not.
-- Robert Browning

#Facts

Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.
-- Robert Browning

#Goodbye #Saying Goodbye #Love Is

O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.
-- Robert Browning

#Country #Heart #Land

For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.
-- Robert Browning

#Might #Succeed #Comfort

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.
-- Robert Browning

#Men #Strive #Should

No work begun shall ever pause for death.
-- Robert Browning

#Work

I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view! . . . . . . Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.
-- Robert Browning

#Frustration #Men #Sight

The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.
-- Robert Browning

#Mean #Fancy #Firsts

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
-- Robert Browning

#Play #Two #World

God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world.
-- Robert Browning

#Heaven #World

A lion may die of an ass's kick.
-- Robert Browning

#May #Lions #Ass

All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
-- Robert Browning

#Soul #Flesh #Helping

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning

#Genius

Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!
-- Robert Browning

#Song #Play #Survival

I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
-- Robert Browning

#Wise #Earth #Reason

Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.
-- Robert Browning

#Adventure #Two #Preparation

But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.
-- Robert Browning

#Liberty #Littles

I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the pretense of sparing me a twinge or two.
-- Robert Browning

#Dog #Pain #Cat

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here-should he need the next, Let the world mind him! This, throws himself on God, and unperplext Seeking shall find Him.
-- Robert Browning

#Men #Missing #Mind

Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness; and around, Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception-which is truth. A baffling and perverting carnal mesh Binds it, and makes all error: and to know Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without.
-- Robert Browning

#Wall #Believe #Light

All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.
-- Robert Browning

#Firsts #Puppets #Lasts

If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.
-- Robert Browning

#Relationship #Heart #Sunshine

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
-- Robert Browning

#Flower #Curiosity #Wickedness

In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe.
-- Robert Browning

#Believe #Lasts #Firsts

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.
-- Robert Browning

#Lying #Teaching #Rome

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?
-- Robert Browning

#Lying #Past #Deceit

He guides me and the bird. In His good time!
-- Robert Browning

#Bird #Good Times #Guides

All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee; All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem; In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea; Breath and bloom, shade and shine,- wonder, wealth, and-how far above them- Truth, that's brighter than gem, Truth, that's purer than pearl,- Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe- all were for me In the kiss of one girl.
-- Robert Browning

#Girl #Heart #Kissing

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?
-- Robert Browning

#Hair #Gold #Brushes

Thought is the soul of act.
-- Robert Browning

#Soul

Praise is deeper than the lips
-- Robert Browning

#Lips #Praise #Deeper

Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast. For those Whom any sent away,--he knows: And in the live man's stead, Armor and ashes reach The house of each.
-- Robert Browning

#Heart #Home #Men

Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.
-- Robert Browning

#Sleep #Needs

God smiles as He has always smiled; Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The Heavens, God thought on me His child; Ordained a life for me, arrayed Its circumstances, every one To the minutest; ay, God said This head this hand should rest upon Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.
-- Robert Browning

#Stars #Children #Moon

I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves The world; and, vainly favored, it repays The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze By no change of its large calm front of snow.
-- Robert Browning

#Snow #Long #World

Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, So shall they be fulfilled.
-- Robert Browning

#Fate #Fulfilled

Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.
-- Robert Browning

#Fate #Bears #Earth

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.
-- Robert Browning

#Wise #Men #Fool

Talent should minister to genius.
-- Robert Browning

#Genius #Talent #Ministers

Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.
-- Robert Browning

#Friendship #Heart #Eye

Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
-- Robert Browning

#Mean #Doubt #Recognizing

Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more.
-- Robert Browning

#Soul #Body #May

No thought which ever stirred A human breast should be untold.
-- Robert Browning

#Should #Breasts #Humans