“I cannot speak. Some things must not be told to princes... My wizard is worn out... Nothing is to follow but the gold turning into dry leaves, as in the Arabian tale.”
Balsamo the Magician (or The Memoirs of a Physician) by Alex. Dumas (1891)
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Alessandro Cagliostro25
Italian occultist 1743–1795Related quotes
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Variant: There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Arthur Chapman (poet) (1873–1935) American poet and newspaper columnist
October on the Sheep Range http://www.cowboypoetry.com/ac.htm#October, st. 1. <br class="br"> Cactus Center http://www.cowboypoetry.com/ac.htm#ccbk (1921)
Edouard Manet (1832–1883) French painter
Méry promised!
quote of Manet, c. 1881; as cited in The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe; Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 232
Méry Laurent was posing for Manet's painting 'Autumn', one work of Manet's series of the seasons, he painted in 1881 – she had ordered the pelisse from Worth for that posing]
1876 - 1883
Variant: Life... is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Source: Macbeth
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
§ 2-3
Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Khuddaka Nikaya (Minor Collection), Sutta Nipata (Suttas falling down)
“But all thing which that shineth as the gold
Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.”
Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales
The Chanones Yemannes Tale, l. 16430
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales
