George Arnold Quotes

#1. I let my summer days pass idly on.

George Arnold

#2. But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!

George Arnold

#3. What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.

George Arnold

#4. I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And
ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!

George Arnold

#5. The living need charity more than the dead.

George Arnold

#6. The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

George Arnold

#7. Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this
who once has loved, loves never on earth again!

George Arnold

#8. O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.

George Arnold

#9. O'er hill and field October's glories fade;
O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly;
The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade,
Where naked branches make a fitful shade,
And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie.

George Arnold

#10. A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.

George Arnold

#11. Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.

George Arnold

#12. Life for the living, and rest for the dead!

George Arnold

#13. I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.

George Arnold