“Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
“Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.”
— Pericles
As quoted in Eternal Greece (1961) by Rex Warner, p. 34
Context: Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
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“Soul of the age!
The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage!”
Source: To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare (1618), Lines 17 - 24; this was inspired by a eulogy by William Basse, On Shakespeare:
Context: Soul of the age!
The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage!
My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie
A little further, to make thee a room;
Thou art a monument, without a tomb,
And art alive still, while thy book doth live,
And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American poet
Source: The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems (1913), The Crowning Hour, I
Context: p>It was ages ago in life's first wonder
I found you, Virgilia, wild sea-heart;
And 'twas ages ago that we went asunder,
Ages and worlds apart.Your luminous face and your hair's dark glory,
I knew them of old by an ocean-stream,
In a far, first world now turned to story,
Now faded back to dream.</p
“I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.
The day you die.”
Yasunari Kawabata book Beauty and Sadness
Source: Beauty and Sadness
Mary Midgley (1919–2018) British philosopher and ethicist
Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (1979). 1.
L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter
"Julius Caesar: An Appreciation of the Hollywood Production" in The Mercury (15 June 1916)
Letters and essays
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
On Milton (1825)
“It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Compare: "It ain't no use to sit and sigh now, darlin." Paul Clayton, Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I'm Gone).
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Glen Cook book Soldiers Live
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 38, “The Taglian Territories: The Dandha Presh” (p. 502)
