Tread Quotes

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. (Alexander Pope)
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. View quote
Martin Van Buren
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. View quote
William Butler Yeats
All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade Whereer you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes. View quote
Alexander Pope
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. View quote
Edmund Burke
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground. View quote
Joseph Addison
As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Tread lightly, she is near; Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear; The daisies grow. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. View quote
William Cowper
I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. (Thomas Mann)
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel. View quote
Edward Young
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. View quote
Horace
The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better. View quote
Enid Blyton
You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track - the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond? View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust. View quote
John Donne
St. Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you. (Ian McEwan)
Hither came Conan the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet. View quote
Robert E. Howard
The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden. View quote
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. - Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow. View quote
Matthew Arnold
And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure; Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so. View quote
Matthew Arnold
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