Thomas Gray Quotes

» Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

» Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.

» The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

» Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

» Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

» Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond to-day.

» Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

» Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

» 'Tis folly to be wise.

» And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

» I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

» He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

» If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

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Who Said: "New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human." Click To See

"The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld