But who would scorn the month of June, Because December with his breath so hoary, Must come? Much rather should he court the ray, To hoard up warmth against a wintry day.


John Byrom

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's f...
XAVI
Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is th...
JASON REITMAN
I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace ...
JOE BIDEN
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I...
JULIE ANDREWS
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt...
JON MEACHAM
The whole world is a man's birthplace.
CAECILIUS STATIUS
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New O...
JOY HARJO
Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD
Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
FREDERIC CHOPIN
We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and t...
IRWIN ROSE

More John Byrom

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
JOHN BYROM
With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come Whate'er the subject be t...
JOHN BYROM
With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet; To seek what ancien...
JOHN BYROM
Some say, that Seignior Bononchini Compar'd to Handel's a mere Ninny; Others aver, to him, tha...
JOHN BYROM
Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver, that he to Ha...
JOHN BYROM
Christians awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Saviour of the world was born.
JOHN BYROM
Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and ...
JOHN BYROM
Demons in act, but gods at least in face.
JOHN BYROM
But who alas! can love and then be wise?
JOHN BYROM
Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places.
JOHN BYROM
Fresh feres will dry the bright blue eye We late saw streaming o'er.
JOHN BYROM
For without transformation Men become wolves on every slight occasion.
JOHN BYROM
For over-warmth, if false, is worse than truth.
JOHN BYROM
For no one cares for matrimonial cooings, There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.
JOHN BYROM
For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.
JOHN BYROM
Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me But dreams of what has been, no more to be.
JOHN BYROM
Famed For every branch of every science known.
JOHN BYROM
Dreading that climax of all earthly ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills.
JOHN BYROM
Despair of all recovery spoils longevity, And makes men's miseries of alarming brevity.
JOHN BYROM
But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn some grand mistake Casts of...
JOHN BYROM
But thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties; give me a cigar.
JOHN BYROM
But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink, Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow.
JOHN BYROM
But scandal's my aversion--I protest Against all evil speaking, even in jest.
JOHN BYROM
As fierce as hell, or fiercer still, A woman piqued who has her will.
JOHN BYROM
And all may think which way their judgments lead 'em.
JOHN BYROM
Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!
JOHN BYROM
A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness, Or other interesting beast of prey, Are similes at hand...
JOHN BYROM
A sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
JOHN BYROM
A hand may first, and then a lip be kiss'd.
JOHN BYROM
God bless the King--I mean the faith's defender; God bless (no harm in blessing) the pretender; ...
JOHN BYROM
The point is plain as a pike staff.
JOHN BYROM
I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave, Nor to his pleasure, power or...
JOHN BYROM
My hair is grey, but not with years.
JOHN BYROM
My days of love are over: me no more The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow, Can m...
JOHN BYROM
Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.
JOHN BYROM
If that you have a former friend for foe.
JOHN BYROM
I tell the tale as it was told to me.
JOHN BYROM
I make a declaration every spring, Of reformation ere the year run out, But somehow this my ve...
JOHN BYROM
How the devil is it that fresh features Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?
JOHN BYROM
How sweet the task to shield an absent friend! I ask but this of mine to--not defend.
JOHN BYROM
His tact, too, temper'd him from grave to gay, And taught him when to be reserved or free.
JOHN BYROM
His eyes Were with his heart. and that was far away.
JOHN BYROM
He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.
JOHN BYROM
Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye Is dimm'd for a time with a tear.
JOHN BYROM
Gaming gains a loss.
JOHN BYROM
Bone and Skin, two millers thin, / Would starve us all, or near it; / But be it known to Skin and Bo...
JOHN BYROM
Christians awake, salute the happy morn, / Whereon the Saviour of the world was born.
JOHN BYROM
It's rare that you get the rights to such a recent, successful play as this.
JOHN BYROM
It's been nice to cast age-appropriate. Usually you just work with people in your own age range, so ...
JOHN BYROM
In student theater, you see a lot of political plays. But this piece sees things from both sides. On...
JOHN BYROM
I shall prove it - as clear as a whistle.
JOHN BYROM
God bless the King, I mean the Faith's Defender; / God bless - no harm in blessing - the Pretender; ...
JOHN BYROM
Rose, what is become of thy delicate hue? And where is the violet's beautiful blue? Does aught...
JOHN BYROM
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS
Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN
Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON
Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON
Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON
I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON
Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON
I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON
In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON
Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON
What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON
The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON
Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON
There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON
It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON
We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON
The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON
Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS
You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND
I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT
My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR
Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE
I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE
I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE
Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE
Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE
Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE
In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE
I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE
All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE
Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE
When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE
You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY
I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH
I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD
When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI
Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI
The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI
The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI
With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER
Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER
Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD
You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN
The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER
He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE
Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA
I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN
Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON
I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
JOHN LUBBOCK
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
JOHN LYDON
There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS
Get off your horse and drink your milk.
JOHN WAYNE
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
JOHN MCAFEE
I can never consent to being dictated to.
JOHN TYLER
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
JOHN HANCOCK
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim...
JOHN BOLTON
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd...
JOHN BOLTON
You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo...
JOHN BOLTON
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
JOHN BOLTON
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the tw...
JOHN BOLTON
I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the '...
JOHN BOLTON
People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on ...
JOHN BOLTON
There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.
JOHN BOLTON
North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
JOHN BOLTON
I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three...
JOHN BOLTON
A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get...
JOHN BOLTON
The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.
JOHN BOLTON
I don't do carrots.
JOHN BOLTON
My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that sma...
JOHN BOLTON
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
JOHN BOLTON
Reform is not a one-night stand.
JOHN BOLTON