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

Quote by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Topics: Age Quotes

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

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

What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness.

What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail...

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail...

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't...

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't...

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since...

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since...

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

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