Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is
the thorn that guards the rose--easily trimmed off when once
plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making
them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in
slimy waters.
- Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell),
Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell)
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for gentleness, since it removes di... IK MARVEL (PSEUDONYM OF DONALD G. MITCHELL) Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know,... DONALD G. MITCHELL I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of ... DONALD G. MITCHELL I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the ye... DONALD G. MITCHELL Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spiri... DONALD G. MITCHELL The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of ... DONALD G. MITCHELL The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, ... DONALD G. MITCHELL In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfuln... DONALD G. MITCHELL Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to... DON G. MITCHELL There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry. DON G. MITCHELL If North Korea returns to the non-proliferation talks and accepts reviews by the International Atomi... HONG HYUN IK Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in t... DONALD GRANT MITCHELL There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry DONALD GRANT MITCHELL A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass... G. DONALD GALE One man's strawberries are another man's hives. DONALD G. COOLEY Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening. DONALD G. FIRESMITH As long as we’re comparing analogies,” Jack added, “how about this one? A person being chased ... DONALD G. FIRESMITH We spent a few hours struggling to come up with better explanations, but each suggestion was shot do... DONALD G. FIRESMITH And if we are able to do even just 70 percent, it therefore follows that the importation made by tho... DONALD G. DEE We will lead a composite team of the government agencies and we will start raiding the stores. We wi... DONALD G. DEE I'm realistic. Fees are being 'fixed.' It's just a matter of how much. But if you make it high enoug... DONALD G. DEE He leaned towards me, and I did what any reasonable person would do when facing imminent death by be... DONALD G. FIRESMITH I nearly said something, but then thought better of it. It doesn’t pay to publicly point out the f... DONALD G. FIRESMITH They prefer their meals alive and terrified, for fear is their favorite sauce. DONALD G. FIRESMITH My God, I have so much bounty in my life. ELIZABETH MARVEL One might speak to great length of the three corners of realitywhat was seen, what was thought to ... MARVEL BELL One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to b... MARVEL BELL I see artists as the first responders. And when the proverbial crap hits the fan, we are there to be... ELIZABETH MARVEL By nature, my default place is a very introverted one, so it's funny to be in such an extroverte... ELIZABETH MARVEL I felt like I could never get enough of you even if I melted into you like snow on wet grass. MARVEL COMICS I love seeing people in their mess. I find that heartwarming. Charm just doesn't interest me. If... ELIZABETH MARVEL But at my back I always hear, Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie, Des... ANDREW MARVEL (New Orleans) is filled with voodoo and vampire lore. Being raised in that city has influenced my ae... JAMES MARVEL It's a very appropriate show to be doing around Halloween because it's very dark and mysterious. The... JAMES MARVEL You and what army of snaggled toothed wine sots? MARVEL COMICS You have soul ties with the people you sleep with and even when you are no longer in bed with them, ... CHRIS MARVEL It's really interesting because I'm a Quaker... so it's been radical to me to be hired b... ELIZABETH MARVEL Be aware of people who are standing in your circle who don't smile when you win. CHRIS MARVEL OK, so I'm a working mom that also gets to kiss George Clooney. That's a little bit of a per... ELIZABETH MARVEL The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Fest... ELIZABETH MARVEL Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It... ELIZABETH MARVEL I was a spooky kid; that was just my nature. ELIZABETH MARVEL There are a lot of opportunities to try out new ideas and new things through the music. I think that... JAMES MARVEL If you can see it, you can be it. And I believe in that. ELIZABETH MARVEL Personally, I don't want to do theater that's very stylish, when it's just stories on st... ELIZABETH MARVEL I've been around the block. ELIZABETH MARVEL In some ways, I missed my era because I'm big and messy and have big feelings and take up space ... ELIZABETH MARVEL Trying to find a way to represent something that is truly frightening on stage is a fascinating chal... ELIZABETH MARVEL When I was nursing my son, you're up all the time during the first year, and you're sort of ... ELIZABETH MARVEL If I'm asking people to give me two hours of their time, it's because I really feel like the... ELIZABETH MARVEL I'm dying for people to let me be funny! ELIZABETH MARVEL When I finished high school, I didn't have much direction - I was a Deadhead kid who ended up bu... ELIZABETH MARVEL I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual... ELIZABETH MARVEL When I work onstage, I want to play roles that have real, deep theatricality, that aren't the so... ELIZABETH MARVEL I think every actor has those performances they've seen, the person who made them realize that... ELIZABETH MARVEL If someone can make money from you, you can do more things, and eventually, you can do things you co... ELIZABETH MARVEL There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre. ELIZABETH MARVEL As an actress, you have to be very naive. ELIZABETH MARVEL Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the
present controls the past. GEORGE ORWELL (PSEUDONYM OF ERIC BLAIR) To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. FRANCOISE SAGAN (PSEUDONYM OF FRANCOISE QUOIREZ) The history of every individual man should be a Bible. NOVALIS (PSEUDONYM OF FREDERICK VON HARDENBURG) A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses
and does not thrill; an utterance wh... GEORGE SAND (PSEUDONYM OF MME. DUDEVANT) A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a
pipe, whose fragments are thrown ... GEORGE SAND (PSEUDONYM OF MME. DUDEVANT) So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
... BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no
more.
Modesty died when clothes... MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities!
They are the best known unknown pe... MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) All kings is mostly rapscallions. MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is
now fast rising from affluence to... MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) He gives twice who gives quickly.
[Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.]
- credited to Publius Syrus ... JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER) All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour,
She stood as a marble would stand,
Then the Saviour b... JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER) Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards! JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER) All the territorial possessions of all the political
establishments in the earth--including America... MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of
existence. O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER) Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are
more deadly in the long run. MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from
And over the waterside wander'd and wove
As heedless a... JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of
ourselves and how little we think of the ... MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) "So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house?
And a next is under way for little Mr. ... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) Every tear is answered by a blossom,
Every sigh with songs and laughter blent,
April-blooms up... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling
around when you've got an apple, an... MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) The sea! the sea! the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
Without a mark, without ... BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more. BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt
you to the heart: the one to slande... MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.
- Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Proct... BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) And wisest he in this whole wide land
Of hoarding till bent and gray;
For all you can hold in ... JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER) "All honor to him who shall win the prize,"
The world has cried for a thousand years;
But to h... JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER) Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief
On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair
... JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER) Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good
example. MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) Up and down! Up and down!
From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;
And amidst the fla... BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of
his abilities, and for no more, and ... GAIL HAMILTON (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ABIGAIL DODGE) With deep affection
And recollection
I often think of
Those Shandon bells,
Whose... FATHER PROUT (PSEUDONYM OF FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY) 'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon,
Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles,
... JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER) Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet,
Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,
And... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower,
The spectral Owl doth dwell;
Dull, hated, despised,... BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) Conductor, when you receive a fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare.
A blue trip slip ... MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get
a chance to learn. Every thing's ... O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER) If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that
Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. ... O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER) George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron
horse at the lower corner of Union Sq... O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER) "If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the
Golden Diana, "I'd like to know wher... O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER) New York is the Caoutchouc City. . . . They have the furor
rubberendi. O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER) In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness,
he acquired that charming insolen... O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER) Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream.
The irregular houses were like the b... O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER) Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for
me. . . . Me for it from the rathskell... O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER) Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its
revilers. They call it hard as iro... O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER) All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim. BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from
designs by Michel Angelo! MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) There is a stone there,
That whoever kisses,
Oh! he never misses
To grow eloquent.
... FATHER PROUT (PSEUDONYM OF FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY) Within the midnight of her hair,
Half-hidden in its deepest deeps. BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) Gamaun is a dainty steed,
Strong, black, and of a noble breed,
Full of fire, and full of bone,... BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) The bravest battle that ever was fought;
Shall I tell you where and when?
On the maps of the w... JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER) They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always
spell better than they pronounce. MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) Men die, but sorrow never dies;
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is knit ... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while, so
Pack up your troubles in your old kit... GEORGE ASAF (PSEUDONYM OF GEORGE HENRY POWELL) Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne. BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the
emergency, and cave in the emergency's hea... ARTEMUS WARD (PSEUDONYM OF CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE) There are several good protections against temptations, but the
surest is cowardice. MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) Every Fern is tucked and set,
'Neath coverlet,
Downy and soft and warm. SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) Sing! Who sings
To her who weareth a hundred rings?
Ah, who is this lady fine?
The Vine... BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) The punctual tide draws up the bay,
With ripple of wave and hiss of spray. SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) All night the thirsty beach has listening lain
With patience dumb,
Counting the slow, said mom... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) They know the time to go!
The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour
In field and woodland, ... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) When asked what State he hails from,
Our sole reply shall be,
He comes from Appomattox
A... CHARLES G. HALPINE (USED PSEUDONYM MILES O'REILLY) It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette,
It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet;
'Twas ... CHARLES G. HALPINE (USED PSEUDONYM MILES O'REILLY) All our ignorance brings us closer to death. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is
under a love which it cannot return. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own
wrong-doing. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss
At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime,
... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their
objects than love. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) A loaf of bread, the Walrus said,
Is what we chiefly need:
Pepper and vinegar besides
Ar... LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay!
He chortled in his joy. LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) "Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if
only you can find it." LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) As large as life, and twice as natural. LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they
carry their comfort about with them. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
[It., L'ape e la serpe spesso
Sugg... METASTASIO (PSEUDONYM OF ANTONIO DOMENICO BONAVENTURA TRAPASSI PIETRO) What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha? IAN HAY (PSEUDONYM OF MAJOR JOHN HAY BEITH) The dew-bead
Gem of earth and sky begotten. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may
mean either of two contradictories. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) "Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one
and one and one and one and one ... LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) The different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction,
Uglification, and Derision. LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) In every parting there is an image of death. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Our deeds still travel with us from afar.
And what we have been makes us what we are. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Dark the Night, with breath all flowers,
And tender broken voice that fills
With ravishment th... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Two angels guide
The path of man, both aged and yet young.
As angels are, ripening through end... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves,
the fruit, or the flower.
[It., D'... METASTASIO (PSEUDONYM OF ANTONIO DOMENICO BONAVENTURA TRAPASSI PIETRO) Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far,
The voice divine of human loyalty. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) And rank for her meant duty, various,
Yet equal in its worth, done worthily.
Command was servi... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of
mingled doubt and exultation, as the mo... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Fate has carried me
'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--
Not shrink and let the shaf... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Kisses honeyed by oblivion. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the
process by which results are arrive... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience
that would detect the subtlest fo... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) "Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle
replied, "and the different branc... LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by
unexpected words. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of
themselves. LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever
beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secre... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible
consequences, quite apart from any fluc... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) A man's a man,
But when you see a king, you see the work
Of many thousand men. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes
of those who diffuse it; it prove... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) What will the stream become in its lengthened course, if it be so
turpid as its source?
[It., Qua... METASTASIO (PSEUDONYM OF ANTONIO DOMENICO BONAVENTURA TRAPASSI PIETRO) That water which wall from some Alpine height is dashed, broken,
and will murmur loudly, but grows ... METASTASIO (PSEUDONYM OF ANTONIO DOMENICO BONAVENTURA TRAPASSI PIETRO) All things journey: sun and moon,
Morning, noon, and afternoon,
Night and all her stars;
... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) These gems have life in them: their colors speak,
Say what words fail of. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) 'T was brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borog... LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) Where you have friends you should not go to inns. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot
to find the polar star and to fix ... METASTASIO (PSEUDONYM OF ANTONIO DOMENICO BONAVENTURA TRAPASSI PIETRO) When you see fair hair
Be pitiful. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many
would be pitied who are now envied!
... METASTASIO (PSEUDONYM OF ANTONIO DOMENICO BONAVENTURA TRAPASSI PIETRO) To be great is to be misunderstood. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) What makes like dreary is the want of motive. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle. LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
... LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) The little fishes of the sea,
They sent an answer back to me.
The little fishes' answer was
... LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) "Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail,
"There's a porpoise close behind us, a... LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) The tread
Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher
Who holds her heart and waits to hea... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him,
Reckoning his skill with opportunity. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) "The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealin... LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) For strong souls
Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength
In furthest striving act... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) But certain winds will make men's temper bad. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Perhaps the wind
Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,
And all sad sounds are nature's fun... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Beauteous Night lay dead
Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star sickened and
shrank. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no
path and leave a trail. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) In traveling
I shape myself betimes to idleness
And take fools' pleasure. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) As they who make
Good luck a god count all unlucky men. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) The worst of misery
Is when a nature framed for noblest things
Condemns itself in youth to pet... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) No great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions
in their danger. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin
between myself and God. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no
memories of outlived sorrow. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Anger seek it prey,--
Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw,
Like not to go off hu... GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain
To feel much anger. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)