Edward FitzGerald (poet)

“Having seen how many follow and have followed false religions, and having our reason utterly against many of the principal points of the Bible, we require the most perfect evidence of facts, before we can believe. If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe that he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple; and you can't expect greater complaisance than that to be sure.”

“Leave well — even 'pretty well' — alone: that is what I learn as I get old.”

“I am all for the short and merry life.”

“Whether we wake or we sleep,Marketh the going of Time.”

“The King in a carriage may ride,They are traveling all the same pace.”

“Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?”

“A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!”

“Some for the Glories of This World; and some Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!”

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.”

“Ah, Love! could you and I with Him conspire Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!”