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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 192234e | Welcome, kindred glooms!Congenial horrors, hail! | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| 9c8e439 | There studious let me sit,And hold high converse with the mighty dead. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| b324024 | The kiss, snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| 1b629fe | The meek-ey'd Morn appears, mother of dews. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| 1cb2beb | Falsely luxurious, will not man awake? | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| 771a3af | But yonder comes the powerful king of day,Rejoicing in the east. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| 92b5aeb | Ships dim-discovered dropping from the clouds. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| b69c120 | For many a day, and many a dreadful night,Incessant lab'ring round the stormy cape. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| 8c10068 | Sighed and looked unutterable things. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| ec4f81e | A lucky chance, that oft decides the fateOf mighty monarchs. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| 46f7a78 | Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| 5bc72c7 | Come, gentle Spring! ethereal mildness, come. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| ab3acd5 | Base Envy withers at another's joy,And hates that excellence it cannot reach. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| 9ccf97e | But who can paintAmid its gay creation, hues like hers? | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| 917cfdd | Amid the roses fierce Repentance rearsHer snaky crest. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| c547bed | Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,To teach the young idea how to shoot. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| f005ec3 | For lovelinessBut is when unadorned adorned the most. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| c13752e | He saw her charming, but he saw not halfThe charms her downcast modesty conceal'd. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| 725ffe4 | For still the world prevail'd, and its dread laugh,Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| bd38722 | They who are pleased themselves must always please. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| e012b53 | He ceased; but still their trembling ears retainedThe deep vibrations of his witching song. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| 2e407fd | Plac'd far amid the melancholy main. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| f5b2359 | Scoundrel maxim. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| 6312523 | But what most showed the vanity of lifeWas to behold the nations all on fire. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| c58bd43 | A little, round, fat, oily man of God. | James Thomson (poet) | ||
| f0ff9dd | All right, have it your way -- you heard a seal bark! | James Thurber | ||
| a5170e5 | Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? | James Thurber | ||
| 021b3f1 | I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you? | James Thurber | ||
| 8620105 | He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. | James Thurber | ||
| 98999ef | There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. | James Thurber | ||
| d358704 | A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands. | James Thurber | ||
| b611bf3 | It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. | James Thurber | ||
| 8671505 | If the formula for water is HO squared? | Jane Wagner | ||
| 88f2edd | Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. | James Thurber | ||
| c09c0ae | You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. | James Thurber | ||
| 4d5c4d6 | You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. | James Thurber | ||
| 7f7723f | Don't count your boobies until they are hatched. | James Thurber | ||
| 67aa269 | He who hesitates is sometimes saved. | James Thurber | ||
| f931c7e | It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all. | James Thurber | ||
| ec4849c | Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation. | James Thurber | ||
| 1c2a3a5 | Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddam. [sic] | James Thurber | ||
| a34895f | A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make any sense. | James Thurber | ||
| aba106f | All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first. | James Thurber | ||
| b59a328 | All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. | James Thurber |