Quotes from Bartlett's ====================== These quotes were all pulled from Bartlett's Quotations, a version many years ago. I have attributed those quotes we noted them for, and welcome updates to the ones I don't have attributions on. A good friend of mine and I spent half the night perusing the book, and these are some of the gems we found... --The Well-Beloved Bard, 07-Apr-2002-- Remember me. -- last words of a 14-year-old Polish girl about to be hanged, Ravensbruck concentration camp, WWII To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. -- Lord Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. -- Lord Alfred Tennyson, Sir Galahad Cast all your cares on God. That anchor holds. The worst is yet to come. When we fall out with those we love, and kiss again with tears. I sometimes hold it half a sin to put in words the grief I feel. Be near me when my light is low. There is more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. As Love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so Hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear. Sweet is true love, tho' given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain. To love one maiden only, cleave to her, and worship her by years of golden deeds. Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt and cling to faith beyond the forms of faith. The shell must break before the bird can fly. Be patient. Our playwright may show in some 5th act what this wild drama means. Life is so short, so fast the hours fly, we ought to be together, you and I. -- Henry Alford God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love. -- Martin Farguhar Tupper Hope and be happy, that all is for the best. One on God's side is a majority. -- Windoll Phillips Some doubt the courage of thenegro. Go to Haiti and stand on those fifty thousand graves of the best soldiers France ever had, and ask them what they think of the negro's sword. Hold me but safe again within the bond of one immortal look. -- Robert Browning Did it ever strike you on a morning such as this that drowning would be happiness and peace? -- Charles Dickens Heaven knowns we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of the earth, overlying our hard hearts. -- "Great Expectations" For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends? -- "De ???? portions XVI", Marcus Tullius Cicero While the sick man has life, there is hope. -- Cicero Entreating wounds, the cure for pain is pain. -- Plato You think that upon the score of foreknowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they server. -- Socrates (Phaedo, 77) I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys. -- "Merchant of Venice", Act III, scene I, line 130 Let's make up a footnote -- nobody would ever know. What's the point of being adjusted? You'll just gurgle along like Elsie the Cow. -- Maurice Samuel 17 is the one arbitrary random number. It's also called a "Feller" number. Feller, who was a Princeton man but is now dead, always used to say, "Pick any random number, say 17." The point is, if you're going to pick an arbitrary number, you don't want it to be even, and you want it to be less than 20. 19 is pushing it a little. Also, it better not be divisible by 5 if it's going to be random. 1 is obviously out. 3 is the Trinity; that's no good. 5 is divisible by 5, so we don't want that. 7 is lucky; 9 is a perfect square. 11 is also lucky, as in "7 come 11." 13 is unlucky, and 15 is divisible by 5. We've already thrown out all the evens, so 17 is the only number that's left. -- P. Benacerraf The beating of my own heart was all the sound I heard. -- Richard Monckton Milnes Years of love have been forgot in the hatred of a minute. -- Edgar Allen Poe Anyone who says they are not emotional is not getting what they should out of life. -- Ezer Weizman O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew. -- Lord Alfred Tennyson, "Fatima", stanza 3 Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. -- Pihlip James Bailey As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. -- Thoreau