“Oh that we two were Maying.”
The Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act ii, scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Charles Kingsley 50
English clergyman, historian and novelist 1819–1875Related quotes
“We were two, but only had one heart.”
Deux estions et n’avions qu'ung cuer.
Alternative translation: We were two and had but one heart between us.
Source: Le Grand Testament (The Great Testament) (1461), Line 986; "Lay".
11 December 1852
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet
[Braque refers to their common years in Paris, c. 1907 - 1912]
Source: posthumous quotes, Braque', (1968), p. 10
"Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals," section 11: The purpose of ordinal logics (1938), published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, series 2, vol. 45 (1939)
In a footnote to the first sentence, Turing added: "We are leaving out of account that most important faculty which distinguishes topics of interest from others; in fact, we are regarding the function of the mathematician as simply to determine the truth or falsity of propositions."
Context: Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning... The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.
“Two years were all we had, love," she whispered, "and we squandered them.”
Source: The Pearl of the Soul of the World
“A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.”
As Harris K. Telemacher in "L.A. Story" (1991)
“Oh, if only I were perfectly moon blinked [hypnotized]. If only I were…”
Grimble; Chapter Nineteen: "To Believe", p. 143
The Capture (2003)