Quotes from David McCord

But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.

By and byGod caught his eye.

The decent docent doesn't doze;He teaches standing on his toes.His student dassn't doze and does,And that's what teaching is and was.

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit.

Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you.

Epitaph to a waiter: By and by God caught his eye.

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

Life is pharmaceutical from head to cuticle.