WORLDLINESS

Related Subjects: Cosmopolitanism, Cynicism, Earth, Heavens, Mammon

1. O World, be nobler, for her sake!
   If she but knew thee what thou art,
   What wrongs are borne, what deeds are done
   In thee, beneath thy daily sun,
   Know'st thou not that her tender heart
   For pain and very shame would break?
   O World, be nobler, for her sake!—LAURENCE BINYON, O World, Be Nobler
   

2. Do what you will, this world's a fiction
   And is made up of contradiction.—BLAKE
   

3. This world, and the wrong it does.—BROWNING, Old Pictures in Florence
   

4. It is so easy to get lost in the world.—JOHN BURROUGHS
   

5. If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

6. I have not loved the world, nor the world me.—BYRON, Childe Harold
   

7. This world nis but a thurghfare full of wo,
   And we ben pilgrimes, passing to and fro;
   Deeth is an ende of every worldly sore.—CHAUCER, Canterbury Tales
   

8. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was poetry; He formed it, and that was sculpture; He varied and colored it, and that was painting; and then, crowning all, He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand divine, eternal drama.—CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN
   

9. It's a mad world. Mad as Bedlam.—DICKENS, David Copperfield
   

10. The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.—DISRAELI, Endymion
    

11. Good-bye, proud world ! I'm going home;
    Thou art not my friend and I'm not thine.—EMERSON, Good-bye
    

12. That cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.—THOMAS HARDY, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
    

13. The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.—HERACLITUS
    

14. Let the world slide, let the world go;
    A fig for care, and a fig for woe!
    If I can't pay, why I can owe,
    And death makes equal the high and low.—JOHN HEYWOOD, Be Merry Friends
    

15. The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.—O. W. HOLMES, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
    

16. This world is very odd to see,
    We do not comprehend it;
    But in one fact we all agree,
    God won't, and we can't, mend it.—A. H. CLOUGH, Dipsychus
    

17. The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.—THOMAS H. HUXLEY, Lay Sermons
    

18. The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.—WILLIAM JAMES, The Varieties of Religious Experience
    

19. The world is merely a bridge; ye are to pass over it, and not to build your dwellings upon it.—Agrapha: The Unwritten Sayings of Jesus
    

20. This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Prayers and Meditations
    

21. Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes,
    And pause a while from learning to be wise.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Vanity of Human Wishes
    

22. The world in all doth but two nations bear,—
    The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.—ANDREW MARVELL, The Loyal Scot
    

23. O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
    Thy winds, thy wide gray skies!
    Thy mists, that roll and rise!
    Thy woods, this autumn day, that ache and sag
    And all but cry with color.—EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, God's World
    

24. The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.—MOLIERE, L'Ecole des Femmes
    

25. But, good God! what an age is this, and what a world is this! that a man cannot live without playing the knave and dissimulation.—SAMUEL PEPYS, Diary
    

26. The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home
    read only a page.—Proverb
    

27. The world is a net; the more we stir in it, the more we are entangled.—Proverb
    

28. Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.—FRANCIS QUARLES, Emblems
    

29. Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.—RABELAIS
    

30. Great wide, beautiful, wonderful world,
    With the wonderful waters round you curled,
    And the wonderful grass upon your breast,
    World, you are beautifully drest.—W. B. RANDS, The Child's World
    

31. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.—SCHOPENHAUER
    

32. O, how full of briers is this working-day world!—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

33. O God! O God!
    How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable
    Seem to me all the uses of this world.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

34. This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

35. I'll tell the world.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
    

36. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,—
    A stage, where every man must play a part;
    And mine a sad one.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

37. I'll put a girdle round about the earth
    In forty minutes.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
    

38. The world is not thy friend nor the world's law.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

39. Let the world slide.—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew
    

40. O brave new world,
    That has such people in't!—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
    

41. Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,
    From the first point of his appointed course,
    And being once amisse growes daily Wourse and wourse.—EDMUND SPENSER, The Faerie Queene
    

42. There was all the world and his wife.—SWIFT, Polite Conversation
    

43. For why is all around us here
    As if some lesser god had made the world,
    But had not force to shape it as he would?—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King
    

44. That man's the best Cosmopolite
    Who loves his native country best.—TENNYSON, Hands All Round
    

45. The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.—HORACE WALPOLE
    

46. I look upon all the world as my parish.—JOHN WESLEY
    

47. It is a very good world to live in,
    To lend or to spend, or to give in;
    But to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own,
    It is the very worst world that ever was known.—JOHN WILMOT, Epigram
    

48. The world is too much with us; late and soon,
    Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
    Little we see in Nature that is ours.—WORDSWORTH, The World is too Much With Us