Thomas Hood quotes

" Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. " # Gold # Freedom # Power

" No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
November! " # Age and Aging

" But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart! " # Evil

" Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap! " # Poverty and The Poor # Love # God

" But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind? " # Blindness # Time and Time Management # Love

" My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon. " # Books - Reading # Love # Marriage

" A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled. " # Credulity # Taste # Humankind

" His death which happened in his berth, At forty-odd befell: They went and told the sexton, and The sexton tolled the bell. " # Seasons # Death and Dying # Age and Aging

" I remember, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon Nor brought too long a day; But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away. " # Science and Scientists # Love # Marriage

" I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from Heaven Than when I was a boy. " # Goals # Love # Heaven