Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Age
category

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage. – Hesiod

Category:
Age

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Category:
Age

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. – Tom Stoppard

Category:
Age

I dont care about age very much. – Chinua Achebe

Category:
Age

Random Quotes

Autumn bowed to place a beautiful crown on the Queen of Morning, and her velvet robes sway merrily in the chilly breeze. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Autumn

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
Curmudgeonesque

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context. – Ted Stevens

Category:
Intelligence

Every mans got to figure to get beat sometime. – Joe Louis