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All Quotes by author - Norman Douglas

" A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. "

" Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. "

" Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. "

" It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. "

" Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. "

" Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. "

" Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. "

" The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. "

" The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. "

" There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. "

" The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. "

" They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves. "

" To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two. "

" What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? "

" You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. "

" You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising. "

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