Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 5, 1850 - October 30, 1919

Topics

LifeSmileMenManSongEnough

I just think you should get married if you want to have some kids.

John Corbett

ThinkYouWantGetJustKids

The U.K. decided to leave the E.U. - Brexit means Brexit.

Jean-Claude Juncker

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I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.

Ron White

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I'm going to be 75 in May. How can I have lived this long and not know anything?

Miriam Margolyes

LongKnowAnythingLivedMayGoing

I'd love to do a safari holiday somewhere in Africa - maybe Kenya or Tanzania. I have never been, and we've deliberately waited until the children are older so that they could appreciate it, learn something and come back with stories.

Louise Nurding

LoveChildrenAppreciateLearnBack

My parents were active in the anti-war movement in the 1960s, so I grew up with a tradition of civic activism around our dinner table and going to different marches for different causes.

Jared Polis

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I play football because I love the game and I put everything into it.

Doug Baldwin

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Arizona should be to the Sharing Economy what Texas is to Oil and what Silicon Valley used to be to the tech industry.

Doug Ducey

TexasSharingOilEconomyIndustry

Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.

Atul Gawande

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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Sydney Smith

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The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype.

Sydney Pollack

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William's marriage to Kate Middleton showed that social class, which seemed so important when Prince Charles was looking for a bride in the Eighties, is no longer an issue.

Penny Junor

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