The best Quotes by A. E. Housman

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
'Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free."
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
'The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue."
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

I can hear you, you can hear me, when we listen with our hearts.

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Everybody is at war with something, I'm at war with my heart

The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.

"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

Stop telling me to follow my heart. It once led me to you.

It's funny how someone can break your heart, and you still love him with all the little pieces.

But remember this, Pigeon, a human heart has only so much room for love and affection.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

It's a tough time, but these are the best years. Believe me.

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

You have your whole life to be old but a few years to be young.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

A lot of times when you're young and carefree, you don't realize, when you tip over the edge, how difficult it is to climb back in.

When you're young, you should live out every weekend. Even if you look like a scarecrow, you just gotta go!

You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

The great things about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

If you hate your parents, the man, or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really hate your parents, out earn them, out live them and know more than they do.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might

I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.

Grow up, young lady, that's what they all say
It's time to settle down, put childish things away
Aren't you happy, thrilled, delighted? You're going to be a bride
Yes! I'm so excited, I want to run and hide

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I would there were no age betweene ten and three and twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest: for there is nothing (in the betweene) but getting wenches with childe, wronging the Auncientry, stealing, fighting, hearke you now.

I'm not young enough to know everything.

The biggest problem with today's youth is, that you're not a part of it anymore.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection.

During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.

I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.

For 45 years I've worked without an audience.