Quotes Tagged "well"

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Well done is better than well said.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

In the desert, the only god is a well.

Like it or not, there are people who are capable to love genuinely and kill brutally. The amazing thing about that, few of those could even sleep well like babies in the night.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

When it comes to life, I would much rather have run the race well than have run the race fast. For if we understand life, we would realize that the first one to cross the finish line is not necessarily the one who actually won the race.

I draw from the well what I like. The well has both mud and water.