Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes

Most popular Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes

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

mind

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich quote.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich

failure

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

self-deception

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

art

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

old age

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich quote.
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

mediocrity

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 quote.
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.

learning

When I behold what pleasure is pursuit,
What life, what glorious eagerness it is,
Then mark how full possession falls from this,
How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich quote.
When I behold what pleasure is pursuit,
What life, what glorious eagerness it is,
Then mark how full possession falls from this,
How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poems

possessions pursuit

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

classics