I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites;… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
