Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
A. E. Housman Quotes
AlcoholCoping MechanismsHumorIntrospectionSocial Life Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
ConservatismCriticismHuman NatureJudgmentSociety The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
DiscriminationGrowthLiteraturePerceptionPersonal Opinions Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
FreedomIndividualityLawReligion The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
Art And AestheticsPleasure And AppreciationUnderstanding And Interpretation Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
CourageHonorLifeRegretYouth Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
HumorLiteraturePhilosophyPoetryReligion And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
American IdentityCunningDeceptionDualityInnocence In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
HappinessJourneyLossMemoryNostalgia That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
Intellectual CuriosityKnowledgeLearningPhilosophyValue All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
EducationFreedomIntellectual RefugeSafetySanctuary I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
Art And CreativityMemory And EmotionSensory Experience If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
AcceptanceCouragePerseveranceResilienceResponsibility The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
CreativityExpressionIntelligenceNature Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
ExistenceGuiltIdentityMoralitySuffering Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.