A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, a Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou.Omar Khayyam
“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.”
“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.”
— ALPHONSE KARR
Writer & Critic · 1808 – 1890
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, French critic, journalist and novelist. He coined the famous epigram that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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