Praed Quotes

#1. I can't remember what Michael Praed looks like. I'm too young!

Jonas Armstrong

#2. Twelve years ago I made a mock
Of filthy trades and traffics;
I considered what they meant by stock;
I wrote delightful sapphics;
I knew the streets of Rome and Troy,
I supped with fates and Fairies
Twelve years ago I was a boy,
A happy boy at Drury's.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#3. Love manufactures every man into a poet while the fever lasts.

Rosa Campbell Praed

#4. One of his co-workers told me one time when I was about 20 years old, "I like your dad. He hates me, but the thing about your old man is that he hates everyone the same." I've

Eric Greitens

#5. Remember that transformation is a present activity.

Jillian Michaels

#6. A man does not entreat for love. It is the irresistible impulse towards each other of two souls, a union in which there is neither conscious giving nor receiving.

Rosa Campbell Praed

#7. Neither does she have a name
none that I could find even in my most persistent researches: Julian's gentle lady, I mean; she whom I sought and chased and wooed (as it were) down a warren of historical tunnels.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#8. Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

Saadi

#9. For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.

Brian Mulroney

#10. Men and women existed before creeds; love is the only religion.

Rosa Campbell Praed

#11. Bucket
I feel so dreamy
dreamy lazy, crazy sleepy
like I want to be there
in the doorway, the doorway
or the porch corner
be sitting, be empty
notdoing not going
an old bucket left there
in the porch corner is like I am
an old empty bucket somebody left there.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced together elements absolutely and inherently antagonistic to each other!

Rosa Campbell Praed

#13. Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.

Rosa Campbell Praed

#14. I remember, I remember how my childhood fleeted by. The mirth of its December, and the warmth of its July.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#15. Of science and logic he chatters,
As fine and as fast as he can;
Though I am no judge of such matters,
I'm sure he's a talented man.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#16. I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath
a rank
a throne
a grave
The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#17. Character makes its own destiny.

Rosa Campbell Praed

#18. Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#19. Ideas keep turning over and over in my mind and they won't go away.

Jeffrey Dahmer

#20. Your partner cannot fault you for refusing to host a perpetual-motion party or for the fact that you must sleep and will eventually die.

Mallory Ortberg

#21. Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below
Man can receive, or Providence bestow.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#22. True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon.

Rosa Campbell Praed

#23. The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow; And the lean Levite went to sleep, And dreamed of tasting pork to-morrow.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#24. And oh! I shall find how, day by day, All thoughts and things look older; How the laugh of pleasure grows less gay, And the heart of friendship colder.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#25. Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that I'm just the same, but not enough to never do it again!

Jamaica Kincaid

#26. Hail, blest Confusion! here are met
All tongues, and times, and faces;
The Lancers flirt with Juliet,
The Brahmin talks of races.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#27. Still and pale
Thou movest in thy silver veil,
Queen of the night! the filmy shroud
Of many a mild, transparent cloud
Hides, yet adorns thee.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#28. I think while zealots fast and frown,
And fight for two or seven,
That there are fifty roads to town,
And rather more to Heaven.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed