WIST Quotations

Antrim, Minna -- Sweethearts and Beaux (1905)

Dave — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:52:00 +0000

During a quarrel, to have said too little may be mended; to have said too much, not always.

Minna Antrim (1861-1950) American epigrammatist, writer
Sweethearts and Beaux (1905)
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Blake, William -- “The Little Vagabond,” Songs of Experience (1794)

Dave — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 04:03:29 +0000

But if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire, our souls to regale,
We’d sing and we’d pray all the live-long day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
… And God like a father rejoicing to see
His children as pleasant and happy as he,
Would have no more quarrel with the Devil or the barrel,
But kiss him and give him both drink and apparel.

William Blake (1757-1827) English poet, mystic, artist
“The Little Vagabond,” Songs of Experience (1794)

Lewis, C.S. -- The Horse and His Boy (1954)

Dave — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 02:47:48 +0000

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I’m afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up they were so used to quarreling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer, literary scholar, lay theologian [Clive Staples Lewis]
The Horse and His Boy (1954)