Quotes from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

We two make banquets of the plainest fareIn every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measureWe two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

Day's sweetest moments are at dawn.

The two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean.

Though smooth be the heartless prayer, no ear in heaven will mind it; And the finest phrase falls dead, if there is no feeling behind it.

And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate; As the voyage along thru life; 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

I detect more good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.

Whatever is — is best.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole.

Cheese, lively subject of a poet's dream, My thoughts go skipping through the tender theme. Venerable topic, old as the hills, I sing, Yet ever new, and green, like love, and spring.

Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.

And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my task are done.

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone; For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.