Will Carleton Quotes

William McKendree Carleton was an American poet from Michigan. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. October 1845 – 18. December 1912
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Famous Will Carleton Quotes

“To appreciate heaven well
'T is good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell.”

Will Carleton

Gone with a handsomer Man, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The more we arg'ed the question the more we did n't agree.”

Will Carleton

Betsy and I Are Out (1871)

“Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out.”

Will Carleton

Betsy and I Are Out (1871)

“Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.”

Will Carleton

Over the Hill to the Poor-house (1872).

“Betsy, like all good women, had a temper of her own.”

Will Carleton

Betsy and I Are Out (1871)

Will Carleton Quotes

“There's lots of people—this town wouldn't hold them;
Who don't know much excepting what's told them.”

Will Carleton

Carleton (1885) City Ballads, p. 143. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.

“Not a log in this buildin' but its memories has got
And not a nail in this old floor but touches a tender spot.”

Will Carleton

Out of the old House, Nancy, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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