Time and tide wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Waiting for Time
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Time and tide wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
An old man’s caution is young man’s wisdom.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do us most good.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Mingle with the world, but do not wed it.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes—none knows whence—and cannot explain itself.
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson
Death cancels all engagements.
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson
The heart has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of.
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson
Beauty, like supreme dominion, Is but supported by opinion.
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson