Edmund Vance Cooke famous quotes

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.
-- Edmund Vance Cooke

#Fighting #Worry #Bed

Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted. There are some you love, I know; Be not loathe to tell them so. Lips go dry and eyes grow wet Waiting to be warmly met. Keep them not in waiting yet; Kisses kept are wasted.
-- Edmund Vance Cooke

#Eye #Kissing #Love Is

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.
-- Edmund Vance Cooke

#War #Eye #Men

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.
-- Edmund Vance Cooke

#Lying #Fall #Optimism

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.
-- Edmund Vance Cooke

#Exercise #Goal #Trying

Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.
-- Edmund Vance Cooke

#Hurt #Facts #Trouble

So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!
-- Edmund Vance Cooke

#Waiting #Temptation #Clay

But maybe prayer is a road to rise, A mountain path leading toward the skies To assist the spirit who truly tries. But it isn't a shibboleth, creed, nor code, It isn't a pack-horse to carry your load, It isn't a wagon, it's only a road. And perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal, but the exercise!
-- Edmund Vance Cooke

#Horse #Prayer #Exercise

You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt; You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule Should ever be kept at the front;-- Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.
-- Edmund Vance Cooke

#Fighting #Sweat #Bed

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

If I had a life with Woods to look forward to I knew I could fight whatever darkness that tried to take me. Before Woods, I didnt know what I was living for. In my search to find myself, Id found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.

But the Twins opened the fifth with their second and third hits, and Beltre helped Hernandez by taking his bullet throw for a force at third on a bunt try. I felt it, ... My only worry was that he didn't throw me a sinker. He threw hard, but a good fastball.

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.

You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.