
“For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.”
The Bubble, as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.”
“T is not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.”
The Issues of Life and Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.”
Source: Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay
"Hymn of Amida's Vow" (Chapter 1, p. 4).
No Abode: The Record of Ippen (1997)
Referring to Mr. Burns. Compare to Heart of Darkness' manager: "He was becoming confidential now, but I fancy my unresponsive attitude must have exasperated him at last, for he judged it necessary to inform me he feared neither God nor devil, let alone any mere man. I said I could see that very well..."
The Shadow Line (1915)
“Nor do I hold that every kind of gain is always serviceable. Gain, I know, has render’d many great. But there are times when loss should be preferr’d to gain. (translator Thornton)”
Non ego omnino lucrum omne esse utile homini existimo. Scio ego, multos jam lucrum luculentos homines reddidit. Est etiam, ubi profecto damnum praestet facere, quam lucrum.
Captivi, Act II, scene 2, line 75.
Variant translation: There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. (translation by Henry Thomas Riley)
Captivi (The Prisoners)
“Rich Cloaths, nor Cost, nor Education can
Change Nature, nor transform and Ape into a Man.”
Fab. LV: Of an Ægyptian King and his Apes
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
Ballads and Poems (1910), " C. L. M. http://theotherpages.org/poems/masef01.html"