“Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.”
Anger
“I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.”
ReligionAll Quotes by Carl Sandburg
“I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
Funny“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”
Time“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.”
Poetry“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.”
Morning“I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.”
Newyears“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
Happiness“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”
Work“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
Life“Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.”
Nature“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”
Best“I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.”
Work“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.”
Poetry“We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.”
Poetry“When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.”
Society“The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.”
Respect“I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.”
Age“All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.”
Failure“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.”
Future“I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.”
Religion