21 Quotations by Norman Douglas
- 1. A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and ...
- 2. Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
- 3. He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by ...
- 4. How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents ...
- 5. If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
- 6. It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
- 7. Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
- 8. Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
- 9. One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
- 10. People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of thei ...
- 11. People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of thei ...
- 12. Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find ...
- 13. The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
- 14. The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
- 15. There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; an ...
- 16. They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
- 17. To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.
- 18. What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- t ...
- 19. Why always, "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say, "not yet"?
- 20. You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w ...
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