“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by
“A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 141.
“A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note.”
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Context: A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not care whether they could prove the forty-seventh proposition; they do a better thing than that, they practically demonstrate the great Theorem of the Liveableness of Life.
“Fall in love with a man, and you end up doing laundry, even if it does belong to another man.”
Min Farshaw
(15 October 1993)
