Famous quotes containing the word ideal:
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“And he said, That ought to make you
An ideal one-girl farm,
And give you a chance to put some strength
On your slim-jim arm.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed
Confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued,
And cries reproachful: Was it then my praise,
And not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth;
I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.”
—James Russell Lowell (18191891)