Tidings

Famous quotes containing the word tidings:

“May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“Today brings the sad, glad tidings that Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has passed from that darkness which had fallen upon her path through this life, out into the light and joy of that life toward which her vision has so long been strained.
Modern education is lethal to children.... We stuff them with mathematics, we pummel them with science, and we use them up before their time.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“Flash’d from his bed the electric tidings came,
He is no better, he is much the same.”
—Anonymous.

Parody of the style of poet laureate Alfred Austin (1835-1913)