refrain quotes

I'll walk down the lane with a happy refrain And singin' just singin' in the rain.

- Arthur pseudonym of  Arthur Grossman Freed
  'Singin' in the Rain' featured in Hollywood Revue of1929 and other films, including the famous musical of the same title (music by Nacio Herb Brown).

The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point†but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

- Douglas MacArthur
  Address to Congress after being relieved of his duty by President Truman,19 Apr.