Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes

American - Poet November 11, 1836 - March 19, 1907

The ocean moans over dead men's bones. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The ocean moans over dead men's bones. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Ocean, Men, Dead, Over, Bones

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

Sympathy, Never, Lovely, Other, Dies

A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Man, Balloon, Without, Outside, He, Them

Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Today, Past, Tomorrow, Yesterday, Rome

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

Heart, Age, Old Age, Triumph, Old, Over

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Skin, Civilization, Lamb, Barbarism

The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Good, Experience, Lie, Evil, Famous

I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children, without protesting, at least in my own mind, against the blindness and cruelty of their parents or guardians or whoever has care of them. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Children, Talent, Parents, Mind, Care

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Man, Proud, Punishment, Know, Weak

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

Men, Watches, Special, Idiots, Over

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

Imagination, Mind, Detail, Desire, Wings

A man is known by the company his mind keeps. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

A man is known by the company his mind keeps. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Man, Mind, Company, Known, His, Keeps

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Age, Day, Me, Find, Now, Limit

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Man, Born, Own, Who, His, Suspects

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Alone, Fail, Who

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

Child, Parent, You, Find, Admit, Ability

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

Art, True, Translation, Seldom, Gives

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Bird, Man, Rose, Fall, First, Note

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

Age, Man, Mighty, Every, Unseen, Needed

A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus! Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Man, Beginning, Habit, Down, Chains, Him

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

Marriage, Impossible, Meaning, Possible

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

Good, Wish, Everyone, Others, Average

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

Marriage, Man, Happy, World, May, Worse

There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Love, Man, Selfish, Unselfish, Once

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

Love, Friendship, Love Is, Girl, Treat

What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Life, Man, People, Stand, Details, Land

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