Let others seek for empty joys
At ball or concert, rout or play;
Whilst, far from fashion's idle noise,
Her gilded domes, and trappings gay,
I while the wintry eve away,--
'Twixt book and lute the hours divide
And marvel how I e'er could stray
From thee--my own Fireside!
594
All that a fish drinks goes out at the gills.
(Spent as soon as got.)
595
Did we not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never hurt
us.
--_Rochefoucauld._
596
_Boswell_: "No quality will get a man more friends than a disposition to
admire the qualities of others. I do not mean flattery, but a sincere
admiration." _Johnson_: "Nay, Sir, flattery pleases very generally. In
the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but in
the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those
whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered."
--_Boswell's Johnson._
597
_Flowers._--These children of the meadows, born of sunshine and of
showers!
--_Whittier._
598
_Flowers._--Pretty daughters of the Earth and Sun.
599
What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a
face without a smile--a feast without a welcome Are not flowers the
stars of the earth? and are not the stars we see at night the flowers of
heaven?
600
It is my faith that every flower which blows
Enjoys the air it breathes.
--_Wordsworth._
601
How many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
--_Gray._
602
I never cast a flower away,
The gift of one who cared for me;
A little flower--a faded flower,
But it was done reluctantly.
--_L. E. Landon._
603
Flowers are the pledges of fruit.
--_From the Danish._
604
He who gives advice to a fool, beats the air with a stick.
605
None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.
606
_Infallible Test._--A theological student, supposed to be deficient in
judgment, was asked by a professor, in the course of a class
examination, "Pray, how would you discover a fool?" "By the questions he
would ask," was the rather stunning reply.
607
One never needs one's wits so much as when one has to do with a fool.
608
Nothing is so silly as to insist on being the only person who is right.
609
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester.
610
If all fools wore white caps, the majority of us would look like a flock
of geese.
611
Young folks tell what they do, old ones what they have done, and the
others (fools) what they intend to do.
612
Where force prevails, right perishes.
--_Spanish._
613
If there is a harvest ahead, even a distant one, it is poor thrift to be
stingy of your seed-corn!
--_Carlyle._
614