“The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd — till woman smiled.”
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
Part II, line 37
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“Aloof with hermit-eye I scan
The present works of present man —
A wild and dreamlike trade of blood and guile,
Too foolish for a tear, too wicked for a smile!”
"Ode to Tranquility", st. 4 (1801)
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“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Un homme heureux est trop content du présent pour trop se soucier de l'avenir.
From "Mes Projets d'Avenir", a French essay written at age 17 for a school exam (18 September 1896). The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Vol. 1 (1987) Doc. 22.
1890s
Variant: A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Jésus a pleuré, Voltaire a souri; c’est de cette larme divine et de ce sourire humain qu’est faite la douceur de la civilisation actuelle. <br class="br">Speech, "Le centenaire de Voltaire" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Actes_et_paroles_-_Depuis_l%E2%80%99exil_-_1878#II_LE_CENTENAIRE_DE_VOLTAIRE, on the 100th anniversary of the death of Voltaire, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris (30 May 1878); published in Actes et paroles - Depuis l'exil (1878)
The quote is mistakenly attributed to the author
“She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.”
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Variant: She burned too bright for this world.
Source: The quote is attributed to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, but only first part appears in book. https://books.google.pl/books?id=Aiye9MLNh9EC&q=wild%2C+wicked+slip#v=snippet&q=wild%2C%20wicked%20slip&f=false
“Better too much spade work than too little! This work saves blood.”
Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II
Lieber zuviel als zu wenig Spatengebrauch! Diese Arbeit spart Blut.
Source: Infanterie greift an (1937), p. 28.
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
1782, reported in Henry Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux, Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III (1845), Vol. II, p. 62.
1780s
“I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist