Jean Ingelow: How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!

How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful! — Jean Ingelow

How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!

Jean Ingelow

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Ἀλλ' ἐκδιδάσκει πάνθ' ὁ γηράσκων χρόνος. — Aeschylus

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. — Miguel de Cervantes

Examining by hours is not so unprecedented. It was the old custom among the Roma — Marlay

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of br — John Dryden

Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for eve — Thomas Campbell

I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my — Jane Austen

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian . — George Bernard Shaw

John Summerfield Staples, President Lincoln's "Substitute" — Abraham Lincoln

Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust Descend; — Omar Khayyám

Fraternity has subtleties. — Fernando Pessoa

William Shakespeare quotes about love — William Shakespeare

She's the ornament of her sex. — Charles Dickens