page quotes

It looks well enough on the page, but never well enough.

- Basil Bunting
  Briggflatts.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 2, stanza 98.

My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.

- Arthur Christiansen
Headlines all my Life, ch.19.

After the funeral, my father struggled through half a page, and it might as well have been Hottentott. 'And what dun they gi'e thee for that, lad?' 'Fifty pounds, father.' 'Fifty pounds!' He was dumbfounded, and looked at mewith shrewd eyes,asif I were a swindler.'Fifty pounds! An'tha's niver done a day's hard work in thy life.'

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  Preface to Edward D McDonald (ed)  A Bibliography of D. H. Lawrence.

‚Robaron los conquistadores una pa  gina al Universo! Aquellos eran los pueblos que llamaban a laV|a La  ctea'el camino de las almas'; para quienes el Universo estaba lleno del Grande Esp|ritu, en cuyo seno se encerraba toda luz. The conquistadores stole a page from the Universe! Those were the good people who called the Milky Way 'the souls'path'; for them the Universe was full of the Great Spirit, within which all light was contained.

-Jose Mart| 
  Obra literaria,'El hombre antiguo de  Ame  rica y sus artes primitivas' ('Ancient Man in  America and his Primitive  Arts').

   Rule1, on page1of the book of war is: 'Do not march on Moscow'†[Rule 2] is: 'Donot gofighting withyour land armies in China.'

- BernardLaw, 1stViscount MontgomeryofAlamein
  Speech in the House of Lords, 30 May.

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each: They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach, They read with joy, then shut the book.

- Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
  TheAngel in the House, bk.1,The Betrothal, canto 8, prelude 2,'The Revelation'.

Or where the pictures for the page atone, And Quarles is saved by beauties not his own.

- Alexander Pope
  The Dunciad, bk.1, l.139^40.

Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

- Alexander Pope
  The Dunciad, bk.4, l.127^30.

Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu. We cannot tear out a single page from our life, but we can throw the entire book in the fire.

- Sir Sydney Samuelson
  Mauprat.

I think you will like them, when you shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Sir Benjamin Backbite, of his love elegies to Maria. The School for Scandal, act1, sc.1.

But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'Merlin andVivien', l.667^9.

I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures.

- Earl Warren
  In Sports Illustrated,'Scorecard', 22 Jul.