Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Canto 4, "Hys Nouryture"
Phantasmagoria (1869)
“Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine,
Yet let's be merry: we'll have tea and toast;
Custards for supper, and an endless host
Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies,
And other such ladylike luxuries.”
Letter to Maria Gisborne (1820), l. 302
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English Romantic poet 1792–1822Related quotes
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Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Count Mippipopolous, in Book 1, Ch. 7
Source: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
“Past is dead
Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side…"
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Sting (1951) English musician
Source: Nothing Like the Sun
Jacques Brel (1929–1978) Belgian singer-songwriter
If Only We Have Love (1957)
Context: If we only have love
We will never bow down
We'll be tall as the pines
Neither heroes nor clowns.
If we only have love
Then we'll only be men
And we'll drink from the Grail
To be born once again;
Then with nothing at all
But the little we are
We'll have conquered all time
All space, the sun, and the stars!
Rod McKuen (1933–2015) American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer
As closing scene in the 1968 musical Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1975 film version) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdSXpC8fbNA <br class="br">Translations and adaptations, If We Only Have Love (1968) <br class="br">Context: If we only have love<br>We will never bow down<br>We'll be tall as the pines<br>Neither heroes nor clowns.<br>If we only have love<br>Then we'll only be men<br>And we'll drink from the Grail<br>To be born once again<br>Then with nothing at all<br>But the little we are<br>We'll have conquered all time<br>All space, the sun, and the stars.
Helen Keller book Optimism
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.
Optimism (1903)
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604) English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era
from Care and Disappointment, first published in Paradyse of Dainty Devices, 1576. Published by Grosart in Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies' Library, Vol. IV (1872)
Poems
T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Context: There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands,
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.