Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
“We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for regret. We took our risk with you; you died and we live. We take your noble gift, salute for the last time those lines of pitiable crosses, those solitary mounds, those unknown graves, and turn to… — Richard Aldington Copy Share
No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life. — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise. — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
“But if I'm useless only because I haven't been properly educated, is that my fault?” — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure,… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
“All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism." ("Sacrifice Post")” — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul. — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century the women who wanted to be on their own were some of the best, the honest ones, those who instinctively… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
“The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.” — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art? — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
