Quotes from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Since Eden's freshness and man's fall, no rose has been original.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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
Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven that from the East glad message brings.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct historical shadows to the generation immediately following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
With the tears a Land hath shed Their graves should ever be green.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich