“ The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring. ”
- Ambrose Phillips- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I wear carefully faded designer jeans and I once met Marlon Brando and I even bought a drink for the Aga Khan but he would not shake my hand. ”
- Jon English- Copy
- 1.6K
“ 'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring. ”
- Ambrose Philips- Copy
- 2.5K
“ If we didn't live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt, but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 2K
“ Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past; what is recalled by faded flowers save that they did not last? ”
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon- Copy
- 903
“ For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. ”
- James M. Barrie- Copy
- 671
“ If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement. ”
- Gilbert Harding- Copy
- 402
“ At first people found a few diamonds in the yellow clay, and they were delighted with their good fortune, even while they supposed that this was to be the full extent of their find. Then, upon digging deeper, they came upon the blue clay, and, to their amazement, they then found as many precious stones in a day as they had previously found in a year, and what had formerly seemed like wealth faded into insignificance beside the new riches… ”
- Emmet Fox- Copy
- 2.1K
“ In describing the Mound-builders no effort has been made to paint their costume, their modes of life or their system of government. They are presented to the reader almost exclusively under a single aspect, and under the influence of a single emotion… ”
- Cornelius Mathews- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Forgiveness has nothing to do with forgetting… A wounded person cannot - indeed, should not - think that a faded memory can provide an expiation of the past. To forgive, one must remember the past, put it into perspective, and move beyond it. Without remembrance, no wound can be transcended. ”
- Beverly Flanigan- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Because her instinct has told her or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect, but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot. ”
- Arnold Bennett- Copy
- 2.2K
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