Welcome to QuoteGreet’s quote of the day. Read and share our quote picks for today, Monday, April 24th, 2023.
Today’s quote of the day is selected from categories of work, positivity, inspiration, humor, life, love, and short quotes.
“Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything.” — George Bernard Shaw
Check out the previous day’s quote of the day.
Monday’s quote of the day for work
“Give yourself something to work toward – constantly.” — Mary Kay Ash
Positive Monday quote of the day
“Morning meditation is important to start every day on a positive note.” — Susan Burton
Inspirational Monday quote of the day
“The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.” — Brendon Burchard
Funny quote of the day for Monday
“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!” — Dr. Seuss
Quote for today about life
“Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.” — Alexis Carrel
Quote for today about love
“Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.” — Billie Holiday
Short quote of the day for Monday
“Life’s managed, not cured.” — Phillip C. Mcgraw
Poem of the day — Monday, April 24th, 2023
Author: Henry Lawson
Title: Borderland
I am back from up the country, very sorry that I went,
Seeking for the Southern poets’ land whereon to pitch my tent;
I have lost a lot of idols, which were broken on the track,
Burnt a lot of fancy verses, and I’m glad that I am back.
Further out may be the pleasant scenes of which our poets boast,
But I think the country’s rather more inviting round the coast,
Anyway, I’ll stay at present at a boarding-house in town
Drinking beer and lemon-squashes, taking baths and cooling down.
Sunny plains! Great Scot!, those burning wastes of barren soil and sand
With their everlasting fences stretching out across the land!
Desolation where the crow is! Desert! where the eagle flies,
Paddocks where the luny bullock starts and stares with reddened eyes;
Where, in clouds of dust enveloped, roasted bullock-drivers creep
Slowly past the sun-dried shepherd dragged behind his crawling sheep.
Stunted “peak” of granite gleaming, glaring! like a molten mass
Turned, from some infernal furnace, on a plain devoid of grass.
Miles and miles of thirsty gutters, strings of muddy waterholes
In the place of “shining rivers” (walled by cliffs and forest boles).
“Range!” of ridgs, gullies, ridges, barren! where the madden’d flies,
Fiercer than the plagues of Egypt, swarm about your blighted eyes!
Bush! where there is no horizon! where the buried bushman sees
Nothing. Nothing! but the maddening sameness of the stunted trees!
Lonely hut where drought’s eternal, suffocating atmosphere,
Where the God forgottcn hatter dreams of city-life and beer.
Treacherous tracks that trap the stranger, endless roads that gleam and glare,
Dark and evil-looking gullies, hiding secrets here and there!
Dull, dumb flats and stony “rises,” where the bullocks sweat and bake,
And the sinister “gohanna,” and the lizard, and the snake.
Land of day and night, no morning freshness, and no afternoon,
For the great, white sun in rising brings with him the heat of noon.
Dismal country for the exile, when the shades begin to fall
From the sad, heart-breaking sunset, to the new-chum, worst of all.
Dreary land in rainy weather, with the endless clouds that drift
O’er the bushman like a blanket that the Lord will never lift,
Dismal land when it is raining, growl of floods, and oh! the “woosh”
Of the rain and wind together on the dark bed of the bush,
Ghastly fires in lonely humpies where the granite rocks are pil’d
On the rain-swept wildernesses that are wildest of the wild.
Land where gaunt and haggard women live alone and work like men,
Till their husbands, gone a-droving, will return to them again,
Homes of men! if homes had ever such a God-forgotten place,
Where the wild selector’s children fly before a stranger’s face.
Home of tragedy applauded by the dingoes’ dismal yell,
Heaven of the shanty-keeper, fitting fiend for such a hell,
And the wallaroos and wombats, and, of course, the “curlew’s call”,
And the lone sundowner tramping ever onward thro’ it all!
I am back from up the country, up the country where I went
Seeking for the Southern poets’ land whereon to pitch my tent;
I have left a lot of broken idols out along the track,
Burnt a lot of fancy verses, and I’m glad that I am back,
I believe the Southern poet’s dream will not be realized
Till the plains are irrigated and the land is humanized.
I intend to stay at present, as I said before, in town
Drinking beer and lemon-squashes, taking baths, and cooling down.
See Also:
Today’s Quote Of The Day — Sunday, April 23rd, 2023
Today’s Quote Of The Day — Saturday, April 22nd, 2023
Final thoughts
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