Famous quotes containing the word increasing:
“O, she walked unaware of her own increasing beauty
That was holding mens thoughts from market or plough,”
—Patrick MacDonogh (19021961)
“As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress of the character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“When a man grows old his joy
Grows more deep day after day,
His empty heart is full at length
But he has need of all that strength
Because of the increasing Night
That opens her mystery and fright.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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