Part I, stanza 23 (1809)
Gertrude of Wyoming (1809)
“Man has sufficient cause for tears without adding to them by books.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Man has sufficient cause for tears without adding to the Ultramarine of Life by Bookes. — [Unnamed] editor's introduction, Love Ballads of the Sixteenth Century (Shop Roycroft, 1897; reprinted 2006), p. 7.
Misattributed
“From forty till fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.”
Arthur Wing Pinero (1855–1934) British writer
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, Act 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=P4A-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22From+forty+till+fifty+a+man+is+at+heart+either+a+stoic+or+a+satyr%22&pg=PA38#v=onepage (1893)
“If looks could kill, they probably will
In games without frontiers — war without tears.”
Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
Games Without Frontiers
Song lyrics, Peter Gabriel (III) (1980)
“If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: Nature and Selected Essays
“The human heart is a tangled wood wherein no man knows his way.”
Frank Crane (1861–1928) American Presbyterian minister
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart
“Hast thou named all the birds without a gun;
Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Forbearance http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/forebearance.htm <br class="br">1840s, Poems (1847)
