Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old John Bartlett quotes, John Bartlett sayings, and John Bartlett proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
An antique is anything old with class.John Bartlett
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with it's subject.John Bartlett
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An infant crying in th night,/ An infant crying for the light / And with no language but a cry.John Bartlett
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And Friday, my dear Friday, died of measles, 17 years ago come March.John Bartlett
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Naked lunch— a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.John Bartlett
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Achievement— the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.John Bartlett
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No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.John Bartlett
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The Goops they lick their fingers, / And the Goops they lick their knives; / They spill their broth on the tablecloth—/ Oh, they lead disgusting lives! / The Goops they talk while eating, / And loud and fast they chew; / And that is why I'm glad that I / am not a Goop— are you?John Bartlett
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Let not ambition mock their useful toil, / Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; / Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, / The short and simple annals of the poor.John Bartlett
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And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and liberties of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.John Bartlett
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It is the vague and elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its backJohn Bartlett
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The famous saudade of the Portuguese is a vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present, a turning towards the past or towards the future; not an active discontent or poignant sadness but an indolent dreaming wistfulness.John Bartlett
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As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.John Bartlett
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The sea is the lands's edge also, the granite / Into which it reaches, the beaches where it tosses / Its hints of earlier and other creation: / The starfish, the hermit crab, the whales's backbone; / The pools where it offers to our curiosity / The more delicate algae and the sea anemone.John Bartlett
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Monday's child is fair of face, / Tuesday's child is full of grace, / Wednesday's child is full of woe, / Thursday's child has far to go, / Friday's child is loving and giving, / Saturday's child has to work for its living, / But a child that's born on the Sabbath day, / Is fair and wise and good and gay.John Bartlett
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So there was a new breed of adventurers, urban adventurers who drifted out at night looking for action with a black man's code to fit their acts. The hipster had absorbed the existentialist synapses of the Negro, and for practical purpose could be considered a white Negro.John Bartlett
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There's nothing sadder than an old hipster.John Bartlett
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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.John Bartlett
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.John Bartlett
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All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.John Bartlett
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.John Bartlett
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Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say: Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?John Bartlett
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It is not a tax bill but a tax relief bill providing relief not for the needy, but for the greedy.John Bartlett
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The scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is the Man Thinking.John Bartlett