Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Quotes about life

Thomas Bailey Aldrich was American poet, novelist, editor. Explore interesting quotes on life.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich: 38 quotes 0 likes

“All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Leaves From a Notebook, Ponkapog Papers (1903) p. 29.

Life

“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

Shaw. Memorial Ode; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Life , Death

“So precious life is! Even to the old
The hours are as a miser’s coins!”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Broken Music; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Variant: So precious life is! Even to the old the hours are as a miser’s coins!

Life