Will Carleton



William McKendree Carleton (October 21, 1845 – December 18, 1912) was an American poet, who wrote mostly about rural life.

Quotes

 * Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.
 * Over the Hill to the Poor-house (1872).


 * There's lots of people—this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.
 * Carleton (1885) City Ballads, p. 143. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.


 * Not a log in this buildin' but its memories has got And not a nail in this old floor but touches a tender spot.
 * Out of the old House, Nancy, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * Fare you well, old house! you're naught that can feel or see, But you seem like a human bein'—a dear old friend to me; And we never will have a better home, if my opinion stands, Until we commence a-keepin' house in the house not made with hands.
 * Out of the old House, Nancy, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * To appreciate heaven well 'T is good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
 * Gone with a handsomer Man, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Betsy and I Are Out (1871)
Betsy and I Are Out (1871), published in the Toledo Blade and then reprinted by Harper’s Weekly, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
 * Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out.


 * I have talked with Betsy, and Betsy has talked with me, And so we've agreed together that we can't never agree.


 * Betsy, like all good women, had a temper of her own.


 * The more we arg'ed the question the more we did n't agree.


 * I don't complain of Betsy or any of her acts, Exceptin' when we 've quarreled and told each other facts.