Anon Quotes - Page 2

• Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Children, Believe

  Lewis Carroll (1993). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-glass”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions

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• My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong to the grave. Think you the worms will care, when anon they make a meal of you, whether you spent your moment sighing wigless in your chamber, or sacked the golden towns of Montezuma? Lookee, the day's nigh spent; 'tis gone careening into time forever. Not a tale's length past we lined our bowels with dinner, and already they growl for more. We are dying men, Ebenezer: i'faith, there's time for naught but bold resolves!

  John Barth

  Past, Men, Thinking

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• Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Farewell, Love Is, Gone Love

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; One thing unshaken stays: Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover; Whereby decays, Each thing save one thing: mid this strife diurnal, Of hourly change begot, Love that is God-born, bides as God eternal, And changes not; Nor means a tinseled dream pursuing lovers, Find altered by-and-bye, When, with possession, time anon discovers, Trapped dreams must die, - For he that visions God, of mankind gathers, One manlike trait alone, And reverently imputes to Him a father's love for his son.

  James Branch Cabell

  Life, Dream, Father

  "The Certain Hour (To Robert Gamble Cabell II: In Dedication of The Certain Hour)". Book by James Branch Cabell, 1916.

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• For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Air, Poetry

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.187, Penguin

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• And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

  John Milton

  Summer, Dream, Children

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the sea!

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Sea, Sailing, Finals

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• Let take a cat, and foster her with milk And tender flesh, and make her couch of silk, And let her see a mouse go by the wall, Anon she leaveth milk and flesh, and all, And every dainty that is in that house, Such appetite hath she to eat the mouse. Lo, here hath kind her domination, And appetite banishes discretion.

  Oswald Barron

  Wall, Cat, House

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• The legislator must be in advance of his age.
  Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sight, Mind, Age

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1994). “Papers”

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• Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Eye, Smell

  William Shakespeare, Barbara Hodgdon (2010). “The Taming of The Shrew: Third Series”, p.148, A&C Black

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• We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

  George Etherege

  Helping, Affection, Pleasure

  1676 The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 2, sc.2.

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• There are so many Al Anon fans and friends who have shown me wonderful love, prayers, thoughts! I thank everyone for this. It feels great to have wonderful people behind you, pushing and praying for you. Mostly, I don't want to let myself down, but they encourage me not to let them down.

  Steven Adler

  Prayer, People, Fans

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• I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

  Thomas Hardy

  Flesh, Faces, Rough Times

  "Heredity" l. 1 (1917)

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• For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.

  Willa Cather

  Strong, Lying, Winning

  Willa Cather (2000). “The Troll Garden: Short Stories”, p.18, U of Nebraska Press

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• Lightly tripping o'er the land, Deftly skimming o'er the main, Scarce our fairy wings bedewing With the frothy mantling brine, Scarce our silver feet acquainting With the verdure-vested ground; Now like swallows o'er a river Gliding low with quivering pinion, Now aloft in ether sailing "Leisurely as summer cloud;" Rising now, anon descending, Swift and bright as shooting stars, Thus we travel glad and free.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Summer, Stars, Clouds

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.261

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• Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.

  John Milton

  Rose, Fabric, Earth

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 710

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• The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Moon, Clouds

  Charles Dickens (1872). “Works”

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• Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Night, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows we that inhabit it, wondering what it is tempts men to live in it; but anon I leave the towns behind and am lost in some boundless heath, and life becomes gradually more tolerable, if not even glorious.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1962). “Journal”

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• The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Writing, Race, Choices

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