
“The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 4 “Dolphin” (p. 231)
Newsweek, 30 April 1956.
Macmillan's description of the role of the Foreign Secretary, a job he held in 1955.
1920s-1950s
“The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 4 “Dolphin” (p. 231)
"George Orwell, Artist" (1972), p. 46
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
cited in: Artscribe. Nr. 7; 13; 17-18 (1977). p. 36
The Shape of Time, 1982
Published as "A Beautiful Thought … we clip from an exchange paper" in Universalist Union (16 March 1844) this is often quoted as an advertisement originally written by Mann, attributed to him in Getting on in the World (1874) by William Mathews, p. 268; and most publications since that date, and sometimes titled "Lost, Two Golden Hours".
Variants:
Lost,
Two golden hours:
Each with a set of
Sixty diamond minutes!
No reward
Is offered, for they are .
Lost for ever!
Published as "Loss of Time" in The Church of England Magazine (28 June 1856) without any crediting of authorship.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset...
The most commonly quoted variant simply begins with a comma rather than a dash.
To Fortune; song reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.”