Quote #30
You should not take a fellow eight years old And make him swear to never kiss the girls.
More from Robert Browning
- If you get simple beauty and naught else, You get about the best thing God invents.
- I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
- Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!
- What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
- Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
- Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
- I do what many dream of, all their lives, --Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do, And fail in doing. I could count twenty such On twice y…
- Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, The superstitious atheist.