Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

Quote by Thomas Hood

Topics: Mind Quotes

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes...

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes...

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day...

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day...

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely,...

There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely,...

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we...

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we...

A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

A moment's thinking is an hour in words.

A moment's thinking is an hour in words.

The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.

The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.