"This Life is a fleeting breath, And whither and how shall I go, When I wander away with Death By a path that I do not know."

--

Source : Louise Chandler Moulton (1908). “The Poems and Sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton ...”

Louise Chandler Moulton

#Fleeting Quotes #Path Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Any time I get to go home is a joyous occasion.”
“The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.”
“Motherâ€™s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truthâ€™s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.”
“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”

Source : Marlene Dietrich's ABC (1962)
“Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind of ideal situation, but it's not. There are a lot of problems. Historically, we have been in struggle, in real struggle to protect and defend the natural leaning towards absorbing the African and the Indian heritage that our society has.”
“I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.”
“What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but in order for us to actually be free in our social interactions, there must be an extremely elaborated network of health, law, institutions, moral rules and so on.”
“The Constitution of our country [was] formed by the Fathers of liberty... Exalt the standard of Democracy! Down with that of priestcraft, and let all the people say Amen! that the blood of our fathers may not cry from the ground against us. Sacred is the memory of that blood which bought for us our liberty.”

You may also like: