Favorite Quotes

"The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed." - Millay

 

"Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody." - Pepys

 

"The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks." - Homer

 

"Most jokes state a bitter truth." - Gelbart

 

"Irony is the hygiene of the mind." - Bibesco

 

"Into each life some rain must fall." - Longfellow

 

"Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do." - Spender

 

"Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!" - Chopin

 

"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor." - Aleichem

 

"Give us enough but with a sparing hand." - Waller

 

"Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third." - Rockne

 

"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." - Larcom

 

"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident." - Guicciardini

 

"Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative." - Mondrian

 

"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." - Grahame

 

"Dead men tell no tales." - Long

 

"Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime." - Schlegel

 

"Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage." - D'Annunzio

 

"Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door." - Tasso

 

"How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?" - Seferis