Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland roundelay You ne'er sung not heard; Though your life from youth to age Passes is a narrow cage.


Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik)

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The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendor.
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A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree: A spruce little fellow as ever could be; His ...
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Autumn Into earth's lap does throw Brown apples gay in a game of play, As the equinoctia...
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Sweet April-time--O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and r...
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With faces like dead lovers who died true.
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O how grandly cometh Even, Sitting on the mountain summit, Purple-vestured, grave, and silent,...
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Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the cha...
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Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight, And...
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God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born t...
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The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our eart...
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To-morrow is, ah, whose?
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A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail! Pierce with thy trill the dark, Like a glitt...
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I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark! Thy note is more loud and free Because there...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the tim...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave the...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me! Its merry architects so small Had scarcely ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
I said to the brown, brown thrush: "Hush, hush! Through the wood's full strains I hear T...
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK
Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK
But Oh! The blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearless on any subject; with whom...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK
Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK
of kindness blow the rest away.
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh th...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK
Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neithe...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK
There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK
But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with wh...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh tho...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK
It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about i...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK
How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK
An author departs, he does not die
DINAH MARIA MULOCK
When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We mus...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh tho...
DINAH MULOCK
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh tho...
DINAH MULOCK
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb migh...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window a...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . . To that dr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
"Presents," I often say, endear Absents."
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present wi...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great...
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A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.
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The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wast...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
Half as sober as a judge.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit ...
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed;...
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What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
Neat, not gaudy.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way ...
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, ...
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD
So spoke the man whose importance originated in the golden harvest he had reaped with the resistless...
HELEN CRAIK
They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main Kneel down and bless the empery ...
WILLIAM STEWART ROSS (USED PSEUDONYM SALADIN)
Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chan...
DINAH SHORE
I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as...
DINAH KATT
Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.
DINAH SHORE
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favou...
DINAH SHERIDAN
Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.
DINAH SHORE
Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chan...
DINAH SHORE
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a...
DINAH SHORE
There are no hopeless situations -- only people who are hopeless about them.
DINAH SHORE
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
DINAH SHORE
Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a cha...
DINAH SHORE
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a c...
DINAH SHORE
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you ...
DINAH SHORE
I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.
DINAH SHORE
When I like myself, which is not too often, but when I do like myself on film, it's when I point...
DINAH MANOFF
Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lo...
DINAH SHERIDAN
They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choic...
DINAH SHERIDAN
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminate...
DINAH SHORE
The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't...
DINAH SHORE
I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a m...
DINAH SHORE
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
DINAH SHERIDAN
Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative o...
DINAH SHORE
I told my agent to not tell me about any offers - I didn't want to be tempted - so I didn't learn un...
DINAH SHERIDAN
When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farme...
DINAH SHORE
After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.
DINAH SHERIDAN
There's no secret about mine-to do another Genevieve with John, Ken and Kay!
DINAH SHERIDAN
I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.
DINAH SHERIDAN
So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.
DINAH SHERIDAN
During the last week of location work out on the Yorkshire moors near Howarth, I learned that I had ...
DINAH SHERIDAN
Because of double hip replacements, I don't play regular golf, but we do lots of putting with deligh...
DINAH SHERIDAN
They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!
DINAH SHERIDAN
We've been included in the governor's emergency declaration, but we have not heard from FEMA the Fed...
DINAH PHILLIPS
They've notified the other folks that there is potential danger.
DINAH PHILLIPS
Those folks all showed up for work. With those employees and non-union managers it went fine.
DINAH PHILLIPS
We feel challenging people in their craft is key. They feel elevated. People become artists by osmos...
DINAH MUELLER
We can get out whatever's hot.
DINAH MUELLER
What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on th...
DINAH SHERIDAN
I'm a slob. I live in sweatpants and workout clothes.
DINAH MANOFF
I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
DINAH SHERIDAN
I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straig...
DINAH SHORE
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
MRS. JAMIESON
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one fra...
MRS. JAMIESON
Two i's company, three i's trumpery.
MRS. PARR
He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared to-morrow.
MRS. MANLEY
He says anything that first comes into his mouth.
MRS. MANLEY
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
MRS. MANLEY
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
MRS. MANLEY
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
MRS. MANLEY
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
MRS. MANLEY
Acerra always drinks till dawn.
MRS. MANLEY
A novice always behaves with propriety.
MRS. MANLEY
No time like the present.
MRS. MANLEY
A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.
MRS. EUSDEN
Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try.
MRS. CUNNINGHAM
You appreciate now what David Beckham goes through - on a larger scale.
MRS JONES
At first, I always make it a point to give in to the prejudices of society. That is how I have alway...
MRS. OLIPHANT
The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village archit...
MRS. OLIPHANT
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
MRS. OLIPHANT
As Sandy and his wife warmed to the tale, one tripping up another in their eagerness to tell everyth...
MRS. OLIPHANT
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. - Josiah Gilbert Holland (use...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB)
Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands, We two--ach! Don't you unde...
ALEXANDER MCGREGOR ROSE (USED PSEUDONYM A.M.R. GORDON)
Circumstances alter cases.
THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON (USED PSEUDONYM SAM SLICK)
What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! ...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB)
Prosperity is a feeble reed. [Fr., C'est un faible roseau que la prosperite.]
JEAN DE SCHELANDRE (USED PSEUDONYM DANIEL D'ANCHERES)
How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river!
JOHN WILSON (2) (USED PSEUDONYM CHRISTOPHER NORTH)
When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be, He comes from Appomattox A...
CHARLES G. HALPINE (USED PSEUDONYM MILES O'REILLY)
It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet; 'Twas ...
CHARLES G. HALPINE (USED PSEUDONYM MILES O'REILLY)
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its wi...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB)
Circumstances alter cases.
THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON USED PSEUDONYM SAM SLICK
If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ide...
KENNETH J.W. CRAIK
Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old.
ANTHONY BERKELEY (A.B. COX) (USED PSEUDONYM FRANCIS ILES)
Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes, Lean s...
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR)
Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow.
ROBERT H. NEWELL (USED PSEUDONYM ORPHEUS C. KERR)
Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown; I think very di...
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR)
[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.
CONRAD POTTER AIKEN (USED PSEUDONYM SAMUEL JEAKE, JR.)
Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot. - Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr)...
ROBERT H. NEWELL (USED PSEUDONYM ORPHEUS C. KERR)
I feel in every smile a chain.
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR)
When life gives you lemons, make grape juice, and let the rest of the world wonder how you did it.
MARIA
Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished a...
MRS. ANNA JAMESON
The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.
MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL
To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.
MRS HUBBARD DAVIS
One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
MRS. HUMPHREY WARD
Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years; Thou hast ta...
MRS. DAVID PORTER
Want, the mistress of invention.
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE
He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for othe...
MRS. ANNA JAMESON
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE
Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE
The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
MRS. HUMPHREY WARD
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within ...
MRS. ANNA JAMESON
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do-- so long as they don’t do it in the street...
MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL
C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has ...
MRS. ERNEST AMES
Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest, Till vernal suns and v...
MRS. MARY TIGHE
Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of...
MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL
Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful how we confound them.
MRS. ANNA JAMESON
She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass! Spring up like Summer grass, ...
HAROLD BEGBIE (USED PSEUDONYM "A GENTLEMAN WITH A DUSTER")
Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, ...
ERNEST LOUIS VICTOR JULES L'EPINE (USED PSEUDONYM JEAN QUATRELLES)
From the Squirrel skin Marcosset Made some mittens for our hero. Mittens with the fur-side ins...
REV. GEORGE AUGUSTUS STRONG (USED PSEUDONYM MARC ANTONY HENDERSON)
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
SARA PAYSON SARA PAYSON WILLIS PARTON USED PSEUDONYM FANNY FERN
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
SARA PAYSON (SARA PAYSON WILLIS PARTON) (USED PSEUDONYM FANNY FERN)
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurr...
MARIA MITCHELL
I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go ...
MARIA MONK
Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special ...
MARIA MONTESSORI
Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - se...
MARIA MONTESSORI
It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in f...
MARIA MONTESSORI
The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
MARIA MONTESSORI
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
MARIA MONTESSORI
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the ma...
MARIA MONTESSORI
The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No,...
MARIA MONTESSORI
Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. T...
MARIA BARTIROMO
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and expe...
MARIA MONTESSORI
What is a scientist? We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a m...
MARIA MONTESSORI
I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.
MARIA SEMPLE
So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper.
MARIA MENOUNOS
I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own person...
MARIA SHRIVER
Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with peopl...
MARIA BARTIROMO
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
MARIA EDGEWORTH
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the diff...
MARIA MONTESSORI
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...
MARIA MONTESSORI
Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles hav...
MARIA MONTESSORI
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to ...
MARIA MONTESSORI
An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a con...
MARIA MONTESSORI
There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all c...
MARIA MONTESSORI
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
MARIA EDGEWORTH
Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has ...
MARIA MONTESSORI
Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
QUEEN MARIA
If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to...
MARIA MONTESSORI
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
MARIA MITCHELL
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
MARIA MITCHELL
Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
MARIA MITCHELL
The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ...
MARIA LENHART
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
MARIA ROBINSON
Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
MARIA EDGEWORTH
We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this ...
MARIA MONTESSORI
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our ...
MARIA MONTESSORI
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
MARIA MITCHELL
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
MARIA EDGEWORTH