List of Edgar Guest Quotes

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.

It Takes A Heap O' Livin' In A House T' Make It Home

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.

Fine Counsel Is Confusing, But Example Is Always Clear

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.

For Age Is Not Alone Of Time, Or We Should Never See Men Old And Bent At Forty And Men Young At Seventy-three.

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.

Tomorrow--there's No Day So Fair, It Knows No Sorrow; A Day That Banishes Despair, Joy Rules Tomorrow.

Columbus Dreamed Of An Unknown Shore At The Rim Of A Far Flung Sky.

I Want To Be Able, As Days Go By, Always To Look Myself Straight In The Eye.

I Take The Family Shopping Round. The Markets Of The World.