Best Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes
- The ocean moans over dead men's bones. Bones
- October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak… Coins
- It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife. Better
- O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded? Freedom
- Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than… Airy
- Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable… Accurs
- The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so… Advantage
- The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been… Been
- Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything… Admirable
- It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets up to go… Brings
- After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow. Debauch
- Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy. Author
- All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it… All
- We weep when we are born, Not when we die! Born
- It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been… Able
- What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of… All
- So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head… Attempt
- What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air. Air
- To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. Age
- What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness. Dies
- There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his… Ability
- What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness. Dies
- Books that have become classicsbooks that have hadtheir day and now get more praise than perusalalways remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains… Age
- My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of Kings Dates