“What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 18
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
“Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.”
“Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.”
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.”
“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”
“Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.”
“To speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.”
“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue.”
“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”
“I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings.”
“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
“Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.”