What did Thomas Bailey Aldrich mean by: How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poet · US Copy
+ My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Kings, Letting go, War, 0 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poet · US
+ With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Land, Memorial Day, Remembrance, 0 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poet · US
+ True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Art, Generosity, 0 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poet · US
+ So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser’s coins! Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Age, Coins, 0 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poet · US
+ The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Coins, Hypocrisy, Sorrow, 0 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poet · US
+ What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Age, Vocabulary, 0 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poet · US
+ Civilization is the lamb’s skin in which barbarism masquerades. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Civilization, Skins, 0 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poet · US
+ Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Candor, Speech, Spokes, 0 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poet · US
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
