The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.
What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting. . . if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same;. . . yours is the earth and everything that's in it. . .
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
Only the nerds will save the earth.
We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.
To shut your eyes is to travel.