Quotes by Housman, A. E.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy hi >>

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think. >>

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. >>

Quotations about Ideals and Idealism

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows. >>

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the >>

Idealist: a cynic in the making. >>

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.

Housman, A. E.