“O hearts that break and give no sign
Save whitening lip and fading tresses!”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Voiceless; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Who hath not saved some trifling thing
More prized than jewels rare,
A faded flower, a broken ring,
A tress of golden hair.”
'Tis but a Little Faded Flower, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 12.
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Column, January 2, 2009, "Moral clarity in Gaza" http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer010209.php3 at jewishworldreview.com. <br class="br">2000s, 2009
“Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses”
Bertie Ahern (1951) Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland
Explaining to the Mahon Tribunal on 20 December 2007 why he did not have a bank account in 1993. Planning Tribunal Transcript http://www.planningtribunal.ie/images/SITECONTENT_784.pdf planningtribunal.ie. 2007-12-20.
"At an Old Palace" (《行宫》), in Gems of Chinese Literature, trans. Herbert A. Giles
Variant translations:
Deserted now imperial bowers.
For whom still redden palace flowers?
Some white-haired chambermaids at leisure
Talk of the late emperor's pleasure.
"At an Old Palace", in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Beijing: New World Press, 1994), p. 128
The ancient Palace lies in desolation spread.
The very garden flowers in solitude grow red.
Only some withered dames with whitened hair remain,
Who sit there idly talking of mystic monarchs dead.
"The Ancient Palace", as translated by W. J. B. Fletcher in Lotus and Chrysanthemum: An Anthology of Chinese and Japanese Poetry (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1934), p. 107
Ellen Clementine Howarth (1827–1899) American writer
'Tis but a Little, Faded Flower, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.”
Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock
Canto II, line 27. Compare: "No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Section 2, Membrane 1, Subsection 2.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“A thing which fades
With no outward sign—
Is the flower
Of the heart of man
In this world!”
Ono no Komachi (825–900) Japanese poet
trans. Arthur Waley, p. 78
Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955)
“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
This phrase was used as the title of a work published in 1931, but was originally used in Ch. LXII of A Novel of Thank You, written in 1925-1926, but not published until 1958 by the Yale University Press