A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
—Thomas Hood
Topics: Belief
But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
—Thomas Hood
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.—The associate of Pope and Addison, the mind accustomed to the noble though silent discourse of Shakespeare and Milton, will hardly seek or put up with low or evil company and slaves.
—Thomas Hood
Topics: Books, Reading
O bed! O bed! Delicious bed! That heaven on earth to the weary head.
—Thomas Hood
Topics: Relaxation, Sleep
Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
—Thomas Hood
Topics: Gold
The poor dear dead have been laid out in vain; tumed into cash, they are laid out again.
—Thomas Hood
Topics: Biography
But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart.
—Thomas Hood
Topics: Evils, Reflection, Evil
Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!
—Thomas Hood
Topics: The Poor, Poverty
My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.
—Thomas Hood
Topics: Tears
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