{"author":"Ella Wheeler Wilcox","author_id":"Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox","total_quotes":50,"quotes":[{"text":"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.","author":"Ella Wheeler Wilcox","tags":["life","man","men "],"id":2375,"author_id":"Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox"},{"text":"Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.","author":"Ella Wheeler Wilcox","tags":["happiness"],"id":4496,"author_id":"Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox"},{"text":"All Mad''He is mad as a hare, poor fellow, And should be in chains,' you say,I haven't a doubt of your statement,  But who isn't mad, I pray?Why, the world is a great asylum, And the people are all insane,Gone daft with pleasure or folly, Or crazed with passion and pain.The infant who shrieks at a shadow, The child with his Santa Claus faith,The woman who worships Dame Fashion, Each man with his notions of death,The miser who hoards up his earnings, The spendthrift who wastes them too soon,The scholar grown blind in his delving, The lover who stares at the moon.The poet who thinks life a paean, The cynic who thinks it a fraud,The youth who goes seeking for pleasure, The preacher who dares talk of God,All priests with their creeds and their croaking, All doubters who dare to deny,The gay who find aught to wake laughter, The sad who find aught worth a sigh,Whoever is downcast or solemn, Whoever is gleeful and gay,Are only the dupes of delusions— We are all of us—all of us mad.","author":"Ella Wheeler Wilcox","tags":["crazy-people","delusions","human-nature","mad-world","madness","poetry"],"id":28354,"author_id":"Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox"},{"text":"Moon and SeaYou are the moon, dear love, and I the sea:The tide of hope swells high within my breast,And hides the rough dark rocks of life's unrestWhen your fond eyes smile near in perigee.But when that loving face is turned from me,Low falls the tide, and the grim rocks appear,And earth's dim coast-line seems a thing to fear.You are the moon, dear one, and I the sea.","author":"Ella Wheeler Wilcox","tags":["love","moon","moon-and-sea","sea"],"id":35565,"author_id":"Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox"},{"text":"Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.","author":"Ella Wheeler Wilcox","tags":["will"],"id":41010,"author_id":"Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox"},{"text":"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.","author":"Ella Wheeler Wilcox","tags":["soul","destiny","control "],"id":46089,"author_id":"Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox"},{"text":"To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.","author":"Ella Wheeler Wilcox","tags":["silence","sin","protest "],"id":52667,"author_id":"Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox"},{"text":"So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.","author":"Ella Wheeler Wilcox","tags":["sad","wind","world "],"id":85885,"author_id":"Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox"},{"text":"Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,But has trouble enough of its own.","author":"Ella Wheeler Wilcox","tags":["happiness","poetry","sadness"],"id":124853,"author_id":"Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox"},{"text":"And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.","author":"Ella Wheeler Wilcox","tags":["progress"],"id":126687,"author_id":"Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}