Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes
1836 – 1907
American poet and editor, author of "Ponkapog Papers".
“All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass.”
“Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever—unread.”
“Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are.”
“Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots.”
“Humor is a delicate shrub, with the passing hectic flush of its time.”
“After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.”
“I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full.”
“The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.”
“The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man.”
“True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.”
“Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.”
“What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.”
“The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.”
