Dylan Thomas Quotes

Though lovers be lost love shall not.
- Dylan Thomas

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
- Dylan Thomas

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Dylan Thomas

Somebody's boring me.
I think it's me.
- Dylan Thomas

He who seeks rest finds boredom.
He who seeks work finds rest.
- Dylan Thomas

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
- Dylan Thomas

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
- Dylan Thomas

The function of posterity is to look after itself.
- Dylan Thomas

The land of my fathers.
My fathers can have it.
- Dylan Thomas

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
- Dylan Thomas

There is only one position for an artist anywhere;
and that is upright.
- Dylan Thomas

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time,
with my eyes hanging out.
- Dylan Thomas

Dylan talked copiously, then stopped.
'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think it's me.'
- Dylan Thomas

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase.
I can with ease become an ordinary fool.
I may be one now.
But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
- Dylan Thomas

I've just had eighteen straight whiskies.
I think that's the record.
- Dylan Thomas

But time has set its maggot on their track.
- Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night.
- Dylan Thomas

Wales is the land of my fathers.
And my fathers can have it.
- Dylan Thomas

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
- Dylan Thomas

These poems, with all their crudities,
doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of
Man and in praise of God,
and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
- Dylan Thomas

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll
find that it may become quite true:
no one will feel the need tom read it because it is
written for yourself alone;
and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
- Dylan Thomas

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that,
the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about
lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
- Dylan Thomas

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed.
I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty:
at least,
if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
- Dylan Thomas

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard

Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford

I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact
opposite of what you're telling them to do,
you have to keep loving them just as much.
- Bill Cosby

Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus

Trust your instinct to the end,
though you can render no reason.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never saw a discontented tree.
They grip the ground as though they liked it,
and though fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do.
- John Muir

Though I am a servant, I am not your servant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard

She generally gave herself very good advice,
(though she very seldom followed it).
- Lewis Carroll

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley

Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith

We should live our lives as though
Christ were coming this afternoon.
- Jimmy Carter

We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps.
I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician,
though I'm glad I am not any of these.
- Tom Glazer

A few minutes ago every tree was excited,
bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossing their branches
in glorious enthusiasm like worship.
But though to the outer ear these trees
are now silent, their songs never cease.
- John Muir

Garden as though you will live forever.
- William Kent

Love comes to those who still hope
even though they've been disappointed,
to those who still believe
even though they've been betrayed,
to those who still love
even though they've been hurt before.
- Anonymous

Though we may know Him by a thousand names,
He is one and the same to us all.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire,
live by love though the stars walk backward.
- e. e. cummings

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid
pregnancy by a resort to mathematics,
though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
- H. L. Mencken

The man who has done his level best...
is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
- B. C. Forbes

Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
- Samuel Butler

He is a drunkard who takes more than
three glasses though he be not drunk.
- Epictetus

Only the dreamer shall understand realities,
though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
- Margaret Fuller

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as
a basis for architecture.
- Arthur Erickson

I was raised by free-spirited people,
though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.
- Diane Lane

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet,
though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone,
and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
- John Quincy Adams

Ambition has one heel nailed in well,
though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
- Lao Tzu

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
- Albrecht Durer

The best thing about my job, though,
is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
- Orson Scott Card

I was always talking about what I could and would do,
and you would always make rhymes about the competion
even though we werent thinking about competition.
- Kool Moe Dee

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.
- Joshua Leonard

Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered.
I just walked with him as though he were really there
and not a spirit just floating around.
- Larry Norman

I was afterwards sorry for this, though,
if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives,
as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.
- John H. Speke

My father was a soccer player.
All my friends played basketball though,
so I stuck with basketball.
- Steve Nash

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off,
in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around,
and among these sculptures.
- George Segal

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