James Whitcomb Riley famous quotes

05-13-2025

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Motivational #Determination #Men
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Motivational #Perseverance #Determination
I love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said - From head to hoof and back again.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Horse #Tails #Said
The ripest peach is highest on the tree
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Tree #Peaches
O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Bumps #Swirls #Musk
O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Fall #Heart #Autumn
Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Running #Sweet #Drawing
To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Friendly #World #Faces
I don't know how to tell it--but ef such a thing could be As the angels wantin' boardin', and they'd call around on me-- I'd want to 'ccommodate 'em--all the whole-in-durin' flock-- When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Angel #Frost #Ems
One naked star has waded through The purple shallows of the night, And faltering as falls the dew It drips its misty light.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Stars #Fall #Night
And the sun had on a crown Wrought of gilded thistledown, And a scarf of velvet vapor And a raveled rainbow gown; And his tinsel-tangled hair Tossed and lost upon the air Was glossier and flossier Than any anywhere.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Hair #Rainbow #Tangled
It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Rain #Positive Attitude #Weather
Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Thinking #Death Of A Loved One #Loved Ones
Just a wee cot-the crickets chirr-love and the smiling face of her.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Love #Faces #Cricket
When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Time #Morning #Discovery
Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And a good God must have made it-leastways, that is what I say, When a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort of way.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Hands #Curiosity #Friendly
I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away. With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, He has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you - oh you, who the wildest yearn For an old-time step, and the glad return, Think of him faring on, as dear In the love of There as the love of Here. Think of him still as the same. I say, He is not dead - he is just away.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Death #Dream #Husband
He is not dead, he is just - away.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Memorial
Tell you what I like the best - 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine, - some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, And not work at nothin' else!
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Summer #June #Long
Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strewberries melts On the vine.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Summer #June #Long
As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone, And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known, So I turn the leaves of Fancy, till in shadowy design I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Life #Design #Faces
The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, With cinnamon in 'em, and all things rare! And the more we ate was the more to spare, Out to old Aunt Mary's! Ah!
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Sweet #Aunt #Jelly

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