Carl Sandburg Quotes

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell" ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Nothing happens unless first we dream." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Now is the time. It is never too late to start something." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "A baby is God's opinion that life should go on." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling. Look out how you use proud words." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Our lives are like a candle in the wind." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed." ~ Carl Sandburg

"A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies." ~ Carl Sandburg

 "Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June." ~ Carl Sandburg