James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 2

Not failure but low aim is crime.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.

Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.