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Familiar Quotations

Bloomers

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.–Anonymous

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.–Phillips Brooks

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.–Dale Carnegie

Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.–Emily James Putnam

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.–Ramakrishna

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.–Logan Pearsall Smith

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.–Sigourney Weaver

Use in Literature

Bloomers

Buildings have been burnt down, farms laid waste, and Santa Anna appears determined to verify his threat, and convert the blooming paradise into a howling wilderness.–John S.C. Abbott in David Crockett.

Several emigrants had penetrated and reared their log huts upon its rich and blooming meadows.–John S.C. Abbott in David Crockett.

On this part, where blooms Each leaf in full maturity, are set Such as in Christ, or ere he came, believ'd.–Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy, entire (tr H.F. Cary).

Tell him, if the light, Wherewith your substance blooms, shall stay with you Eternally, as now: and, if it doth, How, when ye shall regain your visible forms, The sight may without harm endure the change, That also tell.–Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy, entire (tr H.F. Cary).

• Prefacev
• Familiar Quotations1
• Bloomers1
• Use in Literature2
• Bloomers2
• Bloomers – "Beauty"13
• Bloomers – "Birds"14
• Bloomers – "Brightness"15
• Bloomers – "Care"16
• Bloomers – "Cheeks"16
• Bloomers – "Child"17
• Bloomers – "Country"17
• Bloomers – "Day"18
• Bloomers – "Eyes"19
• Bloomers – "Flowers"20
• Bloomers – "Found"24
• Bloomers – "Garden"25
• Bloomers – "Green"26
• Bloomers – "Grown"27
• Bloomers – "Heart"28
• Bloomers – "Ladies"28
• Bloomers – "Little"29
• Bloomers – "Look"31
• Bloomers – "Loves"33
• Bloomers – "Native"33
• Bloomers – "Old"34
• Bloomers – "Roses"35
• Bloomers – "Spring"37
• Bloomers – "Sun"38
• Bloomers – "Warm"39
• Bloomers – "White"39
• Bloomers – "Wild"40
• Bloomers – "World"41
• Bloomers – "Years"42
• Bloomers – "Young"43
• Bloomers – "Youth"44
• Nonfiction Usage46
• Journalism Usage46
• Bibliographic Usage46
• Encyclopedic Usage51
• Lexicographic Usage54
• Index70