Quotes
Quotes about Want
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather or prunello.
Atossa, cursed with every granted prayer,
Childless with all her children, wants an heir;
To heirs unknown descends the unguarded store,
Or wanders heaven-directed to the poor.
Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view,
The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
Friend to my life, which did not you prolong,
The world had wanted many an idle song.
E'en copious Dryden wanted or forgot
The last and greatest art,--the art to blot.
A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was,
Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye;
And of gay castles in the clouds that pass,
Forever flushing round a summer sky:
There eke the soft delights that witchingly
Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,
And the calm pleasures always hover'd nigh;
But whate'er smack'd of noyance or unrest
Was far, far off expell'd from this delicious nest.
A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,--
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
In misery's darkest cavern known,
His useful care was ever nigh
Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan,
And lonely want retir'd to die.
From toil he wins his spirits light,
From busy day the peaceful night;
Rich, from the very want of wealth,
In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.
Not what we wish, but what we want,
Oh, let thy grace supply!
Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt;
It's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
Good people all, with one accord,
Lament for Madam Blaize,
Who never wanted a good word
From those who spoke her praise.
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellect too.
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
An idler is a watch that wants both hands,
As useless if it goes as if it stands.
I would not enter on my list of friends
(Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense,
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
He that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.
Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some would eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit.
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
We meet thee, like a pleasant thought,
When such are wanted.
The vision and the faculty divine;
Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.
And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy
Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be
Borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boy.
I wantoned with thy breakers,
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And trusted to thy billows far and near,
And laid my hand upon thy mane,--as I do here.
Such is the aspect of this shore;
'T is Greece, but living Greece no more!
So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,
We start, for soul is wanting there.
