54 Quotes by Edgar A. Guest

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I’m weary of doing things; weary of words I want to be one with the blossoms and birds.

If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated – but you will never accomplish anything either.

But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you’ll do it or toss it aside.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

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.

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

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.