Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Quotes

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

A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.

A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

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

- 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

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

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

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.

In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Nothing except time is wasted in Italy.

Nothing except time is wasted in Italy.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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