Quotes from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Or light or dark, or short or tall, she sets a spring to snare them all; all's one to her--above her fan, she'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.
— 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
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct historical shadows to the generation immediately following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Conway would give me no rest until I fought him. I felt it was ordained ages before our birth that we should meet on this planet and fight.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich