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No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, wild laughter of the loon


Celia Thaxter

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I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill
Such a bright gold under my windowsill!
Is it fair go...
CELIA THAXTER Take that Poppy seed, for instance: it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter, hardlyvisible, ...
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CELIA THAXTER The sound of roaring laughter is far more contagious than any cough, sniffle, or sneeze.
LILY CHATTERJEE There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
MARK TWAIN The gods want you to laugh and above all they want you to laugh at them.
MARTY RUBIN There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
MARK TWAIN There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist
MARK TWAIN Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?"
"Because everything requ...
ERIN MORGENSTERN No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
THOMAS CARLYLE No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
THOMAS CARLYLE No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
THOMAS CARLYLE The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
MILAN KUNDERA There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining...
MARTIN FILLER If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.
WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG Tears of setbacks are sadder than tears of pain
MARIE MUHAMMAD The wild women in his lap,' my father enthused, 'laying their breasts on his head.'
There was a...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS the call of a loon across a quiet lake.
CONSERVE NEW HAMPSHIRE A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, ...
JACK LONDON my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I; And fast I gather, bit by bit. ...
CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire.
JAROD KINTZ There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...
LISA KLEYPAS No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry ...
MITCH DANIELS Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more cont...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD I cry as the laughter inside me drowns
and descends
into the water
with the ghosts...
A.P. SWEET Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit co...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
RENEE AHDIEH When your intention is clear, so is the way.
ALAN COHEN I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces li...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that porten...
LORD BYRON To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierc...
O.R. MELLING The lyric sound of laughter Fills all the April hills The joy-song of the crocus, The mi...
CLINTON SCOLLARD His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest.
THOMAS CAMPBELL There is nothing sadder than a young pessimist.
MARK TWAIN By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?
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CELIA CRUZ I would start worrying if the loon is having trouble, because the loon is eating the same fish that ...
DAVE EVERS Laughter is inner jogging.
LAUGHTER Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfei...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of ones fellow man.
GROUCHO MARX There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.
GROUCHO MARX To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as...
P. T. BARNUM Music is the sound of unspoken thoughts.
DAN GROAT There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.
LEMONY SNICKET It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beas...
WILLIAM BECKFORD As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can’t guarantee I’m going to be ...
MEREDITH WILD Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it.
MEREDITH WILD Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN O listen to the sounding seaThat beats on the remorseless shore,O listen! for that sound will beWhen...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
VAN WYCK BROOKS Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
ROBERT JORDAN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back.
JOAN DIDION I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot mov...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Homer was a true poet. He made the gods ridiculous.
MARTY RUBIN Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT The smallest piece of split shot, once ingested, can kill a loon within two weeks.
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