78 quotes found
“Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.”
“Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.”
“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”
“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”
“So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.”
“People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.”
“The dust and silence of the upper shelf.”
“The art of making much show with little substance.”
“A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.”
“It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.”
“In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.”
“Nothing perhaps is strange once you have accepted life itself the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.”
“The temple of silence and reconciliation.”
“His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.”
“The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.”
“Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough and need career no further. If a man marries on the other hand public opinion is all agai...”
“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”
“The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.”
“Then out spake brave Horatius The captain of the gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers An...”
“Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.”
