Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
O! think not my spirits are always as light, st. 1 <br class="br"> Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)
Stanza I
Song of the Bumblebee (2008)
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
O! think not my spirits are always as light, st. 1 <br class="br"> Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)
“O my body, make of me always a man who questions!”
Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks
Variant: Oh my body, make of me a man who always questions!
Source: Black Skin, White Masks
“Lovers never get tired of each other, because they are always talking about themselves.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Ce qui fait que les amants et les maîtresses ne s'ennuient point d'être ensemble, c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux-mêmes.
Variant translation: What makes lovers and their mistresses never weary of being together is that they are always talking about themselves.
Maxim 312.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IX The Practice of Painting
Walter Bagehot book The English Constitution
No. VII, Its Supposed Checks and Balances, p. 250
From SHAKESPEARE: THE INDIVIDUAL, quote attributed to Bagehot says: "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what other people say you cannot do."
The English Constitution (1867)
“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Oh think not my Spirits are always as light.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.”
Clive Barker book Galilee
Source: Galilee
“The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.”
George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué.
Letter to Armand Barbès, (12 May 1867), published in Georges Lubin (ed.) Correspondance (Paris: Garnier Freres, 1964-95) vol. 20, p. 412; Bruce Kajewski Traveling with Hermes (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992) p. 32
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.