Relationships and Family

Rose a nurse of ninety years,

 

She only said, ‘My life is dreary,

 

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

 

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

 

And trust me not at all or all in all.

 

I have more care to stay than will to go.

 

His honour rooted in dishonour stood,

 

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

 

Good-night, good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow.

 

The King found her so different from her picture … that … he swore they had brought him a Flanders mare.

 

Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.

 

Every time a child says ‘I don’t believe in fairies’ there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

 

Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.

 

Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.

 

But, friend, to me He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

 

Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.

 

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter’s heart.

 

The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

 

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

 

Decidedly one of us will have to go.

Each time one loves is the only time that one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it.

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Blessings on thee, little man,