201 quotes found
“The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have been so full of evil and of bitter thoughts, and the world has seemed so hard and wrong to us. Then Night, like some great loving moth...”
“You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he knows not why." If Harris's eyes fill with tears, you can bet it is becau...”
“But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.”
“What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over”
“If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.”
“It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions. After eggs ...”
“I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pupil those internal acrobatic feats that are generally impossible and always useless. This is the s...”
“When Montmorency meets a cat, the whole street knows about it; and there is enough bad language wasted in ten seconds to last an ordinarily respectable man all his life, with care.”
“There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.”
“Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside, is a safe rule for those who would always retain the good opinion of that all-powerful, but somewhat unintelligent,...”
“Never judge a person how he died, but how he lived.”
“Death ends all the miseries in life and springs a new beginning for those who are left behind.”
“In my youth, the question chiefly important to me wasWhat sort of man shall I decide to be? At nineteen one asks oneself this question; at thirty-nine we say, I wish Fate hadnt made me this sort of...”
“Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chim...”
“Don't make a physical decision on an emotional feeling that will led you to mentally suffering in the end.”
“Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowe...”
“Thats what sex does: it starts relationships and it verifies the end of relationships.”
“Sleeping with strangers will have you walking with enemies.”
“Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organis...”
“In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.”
