85 quotes found
“How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.”
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
“One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”
“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.”
“Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.”
“The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.”
“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.”
“No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.”
“Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.”
“Joy is the will which labours which overcomes obstacles which knows triumph.”
“The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.”
“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
“Joy is the will which labors which overcomes obstacles which knows triumph.”
“Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye that's all we shall know for truth before we grow old and die.”
“Only that which does not teach which does not cry out which does not condescend which does not explain is irresistible.”
“All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.”
“It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their names to eat an oyster.”
“Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.”
“A statesman is an easy man He tells his lies by rote A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.”
