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W. H. Davies Quotes
Welsh
-
Poet
July 3, 1871 - September 26, 1940
It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. Davies
Rainbow
Birth
Left
Her
Lovely
Hues
Thee
Gave
The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
W. H. Davies
Gardening
Garden
Person
More
Belongs
Help
Him
His
Less
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. Davies
Life
Time
Care
Stand
No Time
Stare
Full
But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
W. H. Davies
Me
Sleep
Cats
Strange
Near
Cannot
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. Davies
Love
Beauty
Long
I Am
Am
I Love
Young
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. Davies
Men
Sympathy
Generosity
Drink
Lack
Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.
W. H. Davies
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
W. H. Davies
Me
Time
Power
Men
Conversational
Impress
Ordinary
Ordinary Men
Present Time
Wonder
Always
Been
Cannot
Gone
Most
Present
Where
It is not altogether shyness that now makes me unsuccessful in company. Sometimes it is a state of mind that is three parts meditation, that will not free the thoughts until their attendant trains are prepared to follow them.
W. H. Davies
Me
Thoughts
Mind
Will
Altogether
Attendant
Meditation
Parts
Prepared
Shyness
Trains
Unsuccessful
Company
Follow
Free
Makes
Now
Sometimes
State
Them
Three
Until
My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
W. H. Davies
Best
People
Mind
Beginning
Alter
Impression
Naturally
Sympathetic
American
Cause
Country
Had
Kind
Never
Proud
Race
Since
Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.
W. H. Davies
Good
America
Succeed
Others
Attain
Beggars
Enable
Ends
Esteem
Fail
Fraternity
Held
Invention
Natives
Originality
Resource
Starve
Tongue
High
Make
Often
Them
Where
Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.
W. H. Davies
Truth
Man
Matter
Clothes
Dressed
Foot
Houses
Quest
Summer
Voluntary
Behind
Being
Ever
Head
Left
Less
Often
Than
Things
Use
Week
Well
Were
We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.
W. H. Davies
Long
Business
Fashion
Pleasure
Beggars
Calling
Combine
Delightful
Determined
Island
Long Island
Necessary
Pursue
Various
Visit
Watering
Course
Our
Places
Sound
Were
Would
Would-Be
How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
W. H. Davies
Down
Security
Autumn
Small
Falling
Falls
Holds
Incessantly
Leaves
North
Snow
Strongest
Throws
Winds
Almost
How
Itself
Level
Them
Until
I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
W. H. Davies
Good
Walk
Men
Hands
Animals
Miles
Scientific
Strife
Twenty
Know
Like
Rather
See
Than
Use
Who
Would
I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as the inclination seized me, which, I must confess, was not often. I was certainly getting some enjoyment out of life, but now and then the waste of time appalled me, for I still have a conviction that I was born to a different life.
W. H. Davies
I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.
W. H. Davies
Good
Earth
Always
More
Beggar
Benefits
Boast
Claims
Daring
Millionaires
Rascal
Received
Suppose
Actor
American
He
His
Number
Present
Than
My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
W. H. Davies
Sea
Ship
Blood
My Own
Governed
Grandfather
Rules
Settled
Shore
Wandering
After
Had
He
His
House
Left
Own
Still
Who
I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
W. H. Davies
It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the whole Welsh people would do anything to entertain, and would even neglect their business to do so. But as a stranger in Wales, it is difficult to break through their suspicion and mistrust.
W. H. Davies
Nature
Good
Me
Long
Entertain
Good Nature
Introduce
Mistrust
Neglect
Proof
Stranger
Suspicion
Wales
Welsh
Anything
Break
Business
Could
Difficult
Even
Friend
Had
Knew
People
Through
Whole
Would
However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
W. H. Davies
Work
May
Always
Succeed
Abundant
Avoid
Careful
However
Tramp
Cannot
He
Places
Where
There is quite a large clan of Scotties among American beggars. He is a good beggar for the simple reason that he is a good talker. Almost every Scotch beggar I met in the States of America was inclined to be talkative, and yet they all managed to conceal their private affairs.
W. H. Davies
Good
Simple
America
American
Affairs
Among
Beggar
Beggars
Clan
Conceal
Inclined
Scotch
Simple Reason
Talkative
Talker
Almost
Every
He
Large
Met
Private
Quite
Reason
States
I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
W. H. Davies
Long
Brain
Water
Society
Conversation
Dislike
Prolonged
Silent
Again
Because
Cannot
Enough
Hold
More
Than
Thought
I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.
W. H. Davies
Life
Me
Green
Mind
Altogether
London
Satisfied
Country
Find
Go
Had
Leave
Made
My Life
Share
Up
Who
Woman
Would
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
W. H. Davies
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