The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

A hair divides what is false and true.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

From the house of unbelief to true religion is a single breath; From the world of doubt to certainty is a single breath; Enjoy this precious single breath, for the harvest of our whole lives is that same one breath.

Algebras are geometric facts which are proved.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back.

The moving finger writes and having writ moves on.

Heavn but the Vision of fulfilld Desire And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.

Ah make the most of what we yet may spend Before we too into the Dust descend.

It's too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. Theday on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life.

Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Faith is never identical with piety.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.

Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.