Quotes About Prosy

It has been a prosy day for us, she said thoughtfully, but to some people it has been a wonderful day. Some one has been rapturously happy in it. Perhaps a great deed has been done somewhere today-- or a great poem written-- or a great man born.

It has been a Prosy day for us, but for some people it has been a wonderful day. Someone was rapturously happy in it. Perhaps a great deed has been done somewhere today- a great poem written- or a great man born. And some heart has been broken, Phil.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it's less vigorous, but that it is not needed by youth; that its love and prosy sageness, so important a few years ago, so gladly offered now, are rejected with laughter.

had studied law an entire week, and then given it up because it was so prosy and tiresome.

The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod – and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving.

There are no poetry enshrined freighters on the sea now. It is a prosy life when we have no time to bid one another good morning.

How melancholy a thing is success," he would later write. "Whilst failure inspires a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories 'are shadows, not substantial things.