Famous Quotes / George William Curtis
11 Quotations by George William Curtis
- 1. A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principl ...
- 2. Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
- 3. Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, ...
- 4. Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
- 5. Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper
- 6. It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
- 7. Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
- 8. Romance, like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The inter ...
- 9. The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they'v ...
- 10. The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of ...
- 11. While we read history we make history.