41 verified quotes from 27 writers, c. 475 BC to 1925.
Quotes 22 to 41 of 41, page 2 of 2.
Continued from page 1, which has our introduction. Still oldest first.
What “verified” means, and what we leave out: How we verify.
…all books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
Our note: From the same lecture.
Verified in the full text of Sesame and Lilies on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #1293
Painted the same decade: The Spanish Singer, Edouard Manet, 1860
The old order changeth, yielding place to new
Our note: King Arthur's farewell to Sir Bedivere.
Verified in the full text of The Passing of Arthur on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #610 · Collected in Idylls of the King
Painted the same decade: Woman with a Parrot, Gustave Courbet, 1866
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
Our note: Kutuzov, on his patient strategy.
Verified in the full text of War and Peace on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #2600
Painted the same decade: Young Lady in 1866, Edouard Manet, 1866
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.
Our note: The White Queen offers Alice a job, paid in jam.
Verified in the full text of Through the Looking-Glass on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #12
Painted the same decade: Apple Blossoms, Charles-François Daubigny, 1873
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards, …
Our note: The White Queen, who remembers things before they happen.
Verified in the full text of Through the Looking-Glass on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #12
Painted the same decade: Sulking, Edgar Degas, ca. 1870
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser
Our note: From Stevenson's essay on living boldly in spite of the fear of death.
Verified in the full text of Æs Triplex on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #386 · Collected in Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers
Painted the same decade: Portrait of a Woman, Henri Fantin-Latour, 1885
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise
Our note: From Stevenson's essay on what the young and the old can learn from each other.
Verified in the full text of Crabbed Age and Youth on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #386 · Collected in Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers
Painted the same decade: Shoes, Vincent van Gogh, 1888
And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow
Our note: The last verse of the second poem in A Shropshire Lad, spoken by a young man of twenty.
Verified in the full text of Loveliest of trees, the cherry now on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #5720 · Collected in A Shropshire Lad
Painted the same decade: The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten), Ferdinand Hodler, 1896
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Our note: From "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar."
Verified in the full text of Following the Equator on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #2895
Painted the same decade: The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten), Ferdinand Hodler, 1896
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
Our note: From the first volume, Reason in Common Sense.
Verified in the full text of The Life of Reason on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #15000
You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life!
Our note: Bennett's picture of each new day as a gift.
Verified in the full text of How to Live on 24 Hours a Day on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #2274
The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it
Our note: From the opening chapter of Bennett's little book on using time.
Verified in the full text of How to Live on 24 Hours a Day on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #2274
Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your immortal soul
Our note: Bennett on everything a single day has to pay for.
Verified in the full text of How to Live on 24 Hours a Day on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #2274
All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this
Our note: The famous opening lines of the novel.
Verified in the full text of Peter and Wendy on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #16
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now
Our note: Judy Abbott, in another letter.
Verified in the full text of Daddy-Long-Legs on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #157
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before
Our note: Carl Linstrum to Alexandra Bergson.
Verified in the full text of O Pioneers! on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #24
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Our note: Jim Burden, back on the Nebraska road he first travelled as a boy.
Verified in the full text of My Ántonia on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #242
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
Our note: Jim Burden's last words on his friendship with Ántonia.
Verified in the full text of My Ántonia on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #242
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday
Our note: From the section on children.
Verified in the full text of The Prophet on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #58585
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
Our note: The last sentence of the novel.
Verified in the full text of The Great Gatsby on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #64317
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