Quotes with chairs

  • On golden chairs 
 Sitting at ease, you paid for the songs which we chanted 
 To those less lucky. You paid us for drying their tears 
 And for comforting all those whom you had wounded.

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  • Henry David Thoreau I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • James Thurber From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William S. Gilbert It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • T. S. Eliot Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bertolt Brecht On golden chairs
    Sitting at ease, you paid for the songs which we chanted
    To those less lucky. You paid us for drying their tears
    And for comforting all those whom you had wounded.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Song of the cut-price poets [Lied der preiswerten
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Anne Northup There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.
    Anne Northup
    American politician and educator (1948 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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