Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes


"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
(Related: First, Man)

"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(Related: Man)

"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(Related: Civilization, Skin)

"The ocean moans over dead men's bones."
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(Related: Men, Ocean)

"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
(Related: Ability, Will)

"They fail, and they alone, who have not striven."
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(Related: Age, Heart, Old)

"True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation."
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(Related: Art)

"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
(Related: Age, Books, Day, Now, Praise)

"What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness."
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"A man is known by the company his mind keeps."
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(Related: Company, Man, Mind)