Accounts Quotes - Page 6
Oh let us not be condemned for what we are. It is enough to account for what we do.
1983 'Children in Exile'.
We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881”, p.203, Cambridge University Press
These days I mostly worry ‘bout my bank account/I ain’t backin’ out ‘til I own a bank to brag about.
"The American Mercury" Magazine, February 1926.
George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.325
George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”
George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]
I liked science. It was about the only thing that stayed the same wherever we moved.
Ellen Klages (2007). “Portable Childhoods”, p.96, Tachyon Publications
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”
David Hume (1862). “Essays moral, political, and literary. (Life of the author, etc.).”, p.30
Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.83