159 quotes found
“Words are clothes that thoughts wear”
“Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.”
“I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.”
“Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.”
“Life is one long process of getting tired.”
“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.”
“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”
“All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
“In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.”
“Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.”
“Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.”
“Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be ...”
“[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.”
“There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of refuge for grown men who have not yet lost them?”
“Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.”
“I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me had asked to see my tobacco-pipe; he examined it carefully, and when he came to the little protub...”
“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.”
“If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is dependent upon the mechanical adjustments of his body, and that inversely his body is subjected wit...”
“Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime”
“If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.”
“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”
“We want words to do more than they can. We try to do with them what comes to very much like trying to mend a watch with a pickaxe or to paint a miniature with a mop; we expect them to help us to gr...”
“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.”
