Hart Foundation Lost

Famous quotes containing the words hart, foundation and/or lost:

    “Won’t go to Harlem in ermine and pearls.”
    —Lorenz Hart (1895–1943)

    “Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?”
    —William Morris (1834–1896)

    “A lost inch of gold may be reclaimed, but never a lost inch of time.”
    —Chinese proverb.