Edgar Whitcomb/early Life

Famous quotes containing the words whitcomb, early and/or life:

    A-list’nin’ to the witch-tales ‘at Annie tells about,
    An’ the Gobble-uns ‘at gits you
    Ef you
    Don’t
    Watch
    Out!
    —James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916)

    The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The life of mind is best and pleasantest for man, since mind more than anything else is man. This life therefore is also the happiest.
    Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)