39 Quotations by Edward Dahlberg
- 1. A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
- 2. Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a ...
- 3. Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precis ...
- 4. Every decision you make is a mistake.
- 5. Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enig ...
- 6. Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
- 7. Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is ...
- 8. Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b ...
- 9. I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
- 10. Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ...
- 11. It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, a ...
- 12. It takes a long time to understand nothing.
- 13. Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
- 14. Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless ...
- 15. No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
- 16. No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the ...
- 17. No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the ...
- 18. Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
- 19. One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.
- 20. One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag ...
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