Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Quotes

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

- 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.

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

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

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

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

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

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Nothing except time is wasted in Italy.

Nothing except time is wasted in Italy.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.

A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

To the mass of mankind - meaning also womankind - marriage may be the only possible thing; but to the individual, it may be the one thing impossible.

To the mass of mankind - meaning also womankind - marriage may be the only possible thing; but to the individual, it may be the one thing impossible.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good.

Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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