Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes
Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in som...
Show MoreWhat is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winge...
Show MoreA girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, ...
Show MoreWhat is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those littl...
Show MoreThey fail and they alone who have not striven.
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over ol...
Show MoreI like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rest...
Show MoreAfter a debauch of thundershower the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.
To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent -that is to triumph over old...
Show MoreAll the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could on...
Show MoreFamous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possi...
Show MoreDwellers by the sea are generally superstitious sailors always are. There is something in the illimi...
Show MoreWhen Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the lit...
Show MoreThe possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.
