5 A. E. Housman Quotes on Thinking

A. E. Housman quotes on thinking

4. Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

6. It is supposed that there has been progress in the science of textual criticism, and the most frivolous pretender has learned to talk superciliously about 'the old unscientific days'. The old unscientific days are everlasting; they are here and now; they are renewed perennially by the ear which takes formulas in, and the tongue which gives them out again, and the mind which meanwhile is empty of reflexion and stuffed with self-complacency.

9. Nature, not content with denying to Mr - the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing.

31. Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think.

35. But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.