Top 5 John Meade Falkner Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Latin for those who know that tongue, Ita in vita ut in lusu alae pessima jactura arte corrigenda est, and in English as Mr. Glennie translated it, As in life, so in a game of hazard, skill will make something of the worst of throws.”

— John Meade Falkner

2. “We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that we shall carry nothing out. When that comes into my mind, I think rather of the little things rather than of gold or lands. Intimate letters that a man treasured more than money; little tokens of which the clue has died with him; the unfinished work to which he was coming back, and never came; even the unpaid bills that worried him; for death transfigures all, and makes the commonplace pathetic.”

— John Meade Falkner

3. “We thought there was no more behind But such a day tomorrow as today And to be a boy eternal.”

— John Meade Falkner

4. “So sleeps the pride of former days – More.”

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5. “Speak not of wealth; ’tis not wealth makes men.”

— John Meade Falkner

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