Life Quotes

Who steals a crown should humbly bear the blame
If his rule defames his people’s name.
They have a right to frown
At a king whose reign does not deserve acclaim,
And rise to seize their crown.

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

Hiroshima was the harvest of death that forced
A dead-end on the Holocaust,
Proving that even “evil” can serve the “good” end
Of those who prove to be its friend?

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it

— Maya Angelou

It’s who steers a ship that wrecks its trip.
Where goes the shepherd there will go the sheep.

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

Time may seem to wait for the coy lady
Even as it hastens on, or is gone already.

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

They halve their worries that know what they want
And make it target of an earnest hunt.

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

When the plaudits start to ape a grumble,
And our footings start to drag and stumble,
And glory turns to face a younger age,
It’s time to take a bow and leave the stage.

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

"All joys amount to empty valves, It’s like you enjoyed too much,And in the end you’re left with nothing."

— Vishü Rita Krocha

The murderous eagle earns a worthy name.
The vulture eats the dead and dies in blame.

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

Sometimes it is wiser to board the 'tolerance ship'
for it sails smoothly throughout the seas of life.

— saajida gora

15/09/2011

When the plaudits start to ape a grumble,
And our footings start to drag and stumble,
And glory turns to face a younger age,
It’s time to take a bow and leave the stage.

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

— Joy Leftow

At love’s checkerboard of delight
Those who play victim botch the game.

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

If the land of our fathers
stabs us like adders
are we still obliged to love it,
to nod our assent to its blind conceit,
and cultivate patriotism
in a loveless acre
massed with rocks?

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

Fame from wealth and power departs with wealth and power;
Fame from art and virtue endures the eternal hour.

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

Why do the faithful shrink
From the embrace
Of “eternal bliss”?

Why would they rather cling
To the flesh
Even by the thinnest shred
Of their crumbling skin?

What gives
Such honeyed taste
To earthly life?

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

Those who build in the heart live in the heart.
Those who build in the mind live in the mind.
And though they pass on, they never die.

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

Life is a fraction of others and yourself. It's up to you how much part would you give to yourself.

— Gabriel Pinatacan

Call no man foe but never love a stranger

— Stella Benson

If the promise of resurrection does not void
The agony of separation with our loved
Ones, why, then, must we – mere mortals – avoid
Admitting grave’s victory over us and our beloved?

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

Truth is piety, piety truth.

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

— Ray Charles

Is a sting effaced by a pain that proves to be brief?
Or a victory not its kind for being short-lived?

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

Patriotism is our taking care
To paint things as they are,
To not misname a spade,
And not shout of gloom, and flare,
When there’s just a shade.

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

Time does not heal wounds inflicted with forethought.

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded

— Maya Angelou

It’s who steers a ship that wrecks its trip.
Where goes the shepherd there will go the sheep.

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

Time may seem to wait for the coy lady
Even as it hastens on, or is gone already.

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

They halve their worries that know what they want
And make it target of an earnest hunt.

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

Battles have been won though lost
And lost though seemingly won;
And the faith of the cross is but a Phoenix
That rose from the ashes of a cold crucifixion.

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

The murderous eagle earns a worthy name.
The vulture eats the dead and dies in blame.

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

The heart and the mind
are strangers entwined,
for what the heart percieves
the mind is unable to conceive.

— saajida gora

14/09/2011

When the plaudits start to ape a grumble,
And our footings start to drag and stumble,
And glory turns to face a younger age,
It’s time to take a bow and leave the stage.

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

No fraud escapes the searching hands of light.
And falsehoods, sown, germinate in shame.

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

Peace cannot exist without happiness which cannot exist without freedom which cannot exist without life. Some people fight for freedom and some people die for freedom but what is freedom really... without life...

— saajida gora

21/09/2011

It’s not in caution that man’s safety lies
Or in timid silence when he ought to speak.
An end awaits the valiant as the weak.
Even the dumb dies.

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

They strain the aqueous world in which we live
And worsen their woes who look back and grieve.

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

Why do the faithful shrink
From the embrace
Of “eternal bliss”?

Why would they rather cling
To the flesh
Even by the thinnest shred
Of their crumbling skin?

What gives
Such honeyed taste
To earthly life?

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

The fear of death does not make a Methuselah,
Nor does the love of life or its taking.

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

Fools, thinking they can see tomorrow,
Ignore today the wrongful paths they follow,
Ignore as well the shadows cast
By their dark and crooked past.

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

— Stendhal

If the hope of eternal bliss does not annul
The pain of bereavement, wherefore, then,
Does death not sting or is grave not victorious at all –
Over us: as yet the earthbound, mortal sons of men?

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

In their desperate ways some kings are sure
To invoke corruption to besmear the pure.

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

Love is a rational expression between you and other.... The other is the numerator and you are the denominator. The larger you give value to the denominator, the lesser the value of the expression.

— Gabriel Pinatacan

All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well

— Marcus Aurelius

Is a sting effaced by a pain that proves to be brief?
Or a victory not its kind for being short-lived?

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

Fools die and praise their fatherland in vain
Or extol a vain throne while they suffer pain.

— Ikeogu Oke

Where I Was Born

Brief may be the earthly span of our grief;
Does that belie their anguish who have grieved?

— Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns

Nature has endowed the human with A HEART to detect the sensibility of
feelings and A WEIRD MIND to contemplate ....so be A REAL HUMAN BEING.

— SIR RAM

“A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.”

— Aberjhani

Red Room Blog

' Would a sky dry up if there were absolute, no rain; To mix in? How would we breathe?'

— Anna Lovering

Life

All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.

— Ogden Nash

Get to know me, not just by words of others, try to be a companion or anyone, be somebody in my life, hope you won't regret. Make me laugh, too. That is a measure of one's character. My world is the same world we are all in.

— April Mae Berza

I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty towards a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly !

— Jan Theuninck

Letteratour (29 November 2004)

CUTTING TRUTHS - Truth is the rarest commodity on earth as very few know how to be open enough to receive it!

— Michael Levy

Philosophy

"Don't mistake my passion for anger."

— Joe DeMarco

2008

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