Facts about Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Occup.	Poet
From	USA
Born	November 11, 1836
Died	March 19, 1907
Aged	70 years

Summary

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"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"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"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"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"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"A man is known by the company his mind keeps"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"The ocean moans over dead men's bones"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"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"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"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"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich