“Humor is a delicate shrub, with the passing hectic flush of its time.”

About Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1836 – 1907

American poet and editor, author of "Ponkapog Papers".

“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent—that is to triumph over old age.”

“All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass.”

“We weep when we are born, not when we die!”

“Wit is cultured insolence.”

“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.”

“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.”

“Humor is the most engaging cowardice.”

“At bottom the world isn't a joke.”

“This type is the grotesque; its new form is comedy.”