Friday, May 03, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Edward Young

« All quotes from this author
 

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
--
Line 757.

 
Edward Young

» Edward Young - all quotes »



Tags: Edward Young Quotes, Sadness Quotes, Authors starting by Y


Similar quotes

 

A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no social position at all to maintain, or but a very insignificant one; and however high it may shoot up in the course of civilization, if the neighboring palace rises in equal or even in greater measure, the occupant of the relatively little house will always find himself more uncomfortable, more dissatisfied, more cramped within his four walls.

 
Karl Marx
 

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

 
Gaston Bachelard
 

'Well ... welcome. My house is your house', his brow suddenly furrowed and he looked worried, 'although only in a metaphorical sense, you understand, because I would not, much as I always admired your straightforward approach, and indeed your forthright stance, actually give you my house, it being the only house I have, and therefore the term is being extended in an, as it were, gratuitous fashion —'

 
Terry Pratchett
 

One of us sings in the street, and we listen to him;
The words ring over us like vague bells of sorrow.
He sings of a house he lived in long ago.
It is strange; this house of dust was the house I lived in;
The house you lived in, the house that all of us know.

 
Conrad Aiken
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact