All James Stephens Quotes
- Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. Consist
- What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow. Education
- It is by love alone that we understand anything Alone
- Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory Content
- Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it. Beloved
- A secret is a weapon and a friend. Friend
- By having much, you are fitted to have more. Fitted
- To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice. All
- Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness. Chaos
- Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom. Die
- We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor… Any
- Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural… Any
- A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside. Bird
- Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise. Beautiful
- Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or… Carelessly
- A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to each… Almost Certainly
- The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial. Birth
- If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not be the futil… Consequent
- To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but… All
- God did not need any assistance, but man did; bitterly he wanted it, and the giving of such assistance was the proper business of a… Any