Source: Hamlet
“When I was young, I said to Sorrow,
"Come and I will play with thee!"”
Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) Irish poet and critic
He is near me now all day,
And at night returns to say,
"I will come again to-morrow—
I will come and stay with thee."
Song, When I was Young I said to Sorrow; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 736.
Pietro Badoglio (1871–1956) Italian general during both World Wars and a Prime Minister of Italy
Quoted in "The Civilizing Mission" - Page 232 - by A. J. Barker - 1968
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Letter to Fanny McCullough (23 December 1862); Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler
1860s
Context: In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.
Stephen Foster (1826–1864) American songwriter
My Old Kentucky Home. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer
First lines of Zelazny's first published short story, Passion Play (1962)
