Top 68 Quotes & Sayings by Edgar Guest - Page 2

Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.

I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe.

Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found real greatness here below. Who guards his post, no matter where, believing God must need him there, Although but lowly toil it be, has risen to nobility. For great and low there's just one test, 'tis that each man shall do his best, Who works with all the strength he can, shall never die in debt to man.

It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home