“Some Mens Memory is like a Box, where a Man should mingle his Jewels with his old Shoes.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
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George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax 65
English politician 1633–1695Related quotes
“I mucked about with his hair. His shoes
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Friends.
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“The worth of a wife is a man’s good fortune;
His jewels are his good children.”
Verse VI.10
Tirukkural
Variant: I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
Source: Les Misérables
"Fall of a City"
Selected Poems (1941)
Context: All the lessons learned, unlearned;
The young, who learned to read, now blind
Their eyes with an archaic film;
The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune
Following the donkey`s bray;
These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses
On the high door of a skull and in some corner
Of an irrefrangible eye
Some old man memory jumps to a child
— Spark from the days of energy.
And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, chapter 8.
The 44 Scotland Street series
“A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.”
Book I, Ch. 4
The Professor's House (1925)
