Edward Fitzgerald Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Edward Fitzgerald:
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
~Edward Fitzgerald
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The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.
~Edward Fitzgerald
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If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.
~Edward Fitzgerald
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Taste is the feminine of genius.
~Edward Fitzgerald
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The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
~Edward Fitzgerald
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I am all for the short and merry life.
~Edward Fitzgerald
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Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less.
~Edward Fitzgerald
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A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
~Edward Fitzgerald
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There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.
~Edward Fitzgerald
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Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.
~Edward Fitzgerald
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I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
~Edward Fitzgerald
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I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
~Edward Fitzgerald
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Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest.
~Edward Fitzgerald
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And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
~Edward Fitzgerald
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