Thomas Bailey
Thomas Bailey
men nero unlimited
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
wine waiting tonight
I beg you come tonight and dine A welcome waits you and sound wine The Roederer chilly to a charm As Juno's breasts the claret warm ...
beautiful memorial-day military
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.
wings imagination mind
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
love sympathy beauty
What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.
art generosity giving
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
life fall leafs
How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.
fear failure failing
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
birthday hope heart
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
men mind company
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.