Zitate und Sprüche von Alfred Tennyson

Ich bin ein Teil aller Menschen, denen ich je begegnet bin.

I am a part of all that I have met.

Wenn ich für jeden Gedanken an dich eine Blume hätte... könnte ich auf ewig durch meinen Garten laufen.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever.

Es ist besser geliebt und verloren zu haben, als nie geliebt zu haben.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

For I dipped into the future,
far as human eye could see,
saw the vision of the world,
and all the wonder that would be.