Famous quotes containing the word fain:
“All human race would fain be wits.
And millions miss, for one that hits.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“These modern ingenious sciences and arts do not affect me as those more venerable arts of hunting and fishing, and even of husbandry in its primitive and simple form; as ancient and honorable trades as the sun and moon and winds pursue, coeval with the faculties of man, and invented when these were invented. We do not know their John Gutenberg, or Richard Arkwright, though the poets would fain make them to have been gradually learned and taught.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)