Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a famous Poet from USA, who lived between November 11, 1836 and March 19, 1907. He/she became 70 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding.
Our collection contains 12 quotes who is written / told by Thomas.
12 Famous quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"They fail, and they alone, who have not striven"
"Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay"
"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 child"
"A man is known by the company his mind keeps"
"The ocean moans over dead men's bones"
"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born"
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age"
"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades"
"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings"
"True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation"
"What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness"
"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original"
