T. E. Brown famous quotes

A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
-- T. E. Brown

#Beauty #Garden #Wot

A rich man's joke is always funny.
-- T. E. Brown

#Cute #Men #Rich

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.
-- T. E. Brown

#Patience #Mother #Sweet

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
-- T. E. Brown

#Art #Men #Letters

I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.
-- T. E. Brown

#Writing #Limits #Fitting

It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.
-- T. E. Brown

#College #Trying #Wish

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
-- T. E. Brown

#Mirrors #Giving #Calling

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.
-- T. E. Brown

#Schemes #Phonetics #Uncertain

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

Beauty is transient and changes with time.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!