Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes

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

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

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Skin Civilization Lamb Which

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 Without He Balloon

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Men Ocean Dead Over

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 Old

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

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

Man Rose Bird Fall

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 Parents Mind Talent

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Men Watches Special Over

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Art True Translation Gives

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Man Proud Know Punishment

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

Mind Imagination Detail Wings

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Man Mind Company Known His

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

Day Age Me Always

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Man Born Own Who

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

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

Child You Parent Will

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Man Age Every Them

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 Down Habit

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

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Marriage Man Happy World

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Love Man Selfish 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

Friendship Love Girl Love Is

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

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