Carl Sandburg Quotes - Page 2

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

All we need to begin with is a #‎ dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling. Look out how you use proud words.

Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

Beware of advice-even this.

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.