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Whether we wake or we sleep,
Whether we carol or weep,
The Sun with his Planets in chime,
Marketh the going of Time.

Edward FitzGerald

The King in a carriage may ride,
And the Beggar may crawl at his side;
But in the general race,
They are traveling all the same pace.

Edward FitzGerald

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Penelope Fitzgerald

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't want to live-I want to love first, and live incidentally. -Zelda Fitzgerald.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. -Zelda Fitzgerald.

Zelda Fitzgerald

No such thing as a man willing to be honest—that would be like a blind man willing to see.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Robert Fitzgerald

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald

I come like Water, and like Wind I go.

Edward Fitzgerald

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Edward Fitzgerald

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