Norman Douglas

People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.

— Norman Douglas

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.

— Norman Douglas

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

— Norman Douglas

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in…

— Norman Douglas

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

— Norman Douglas

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

— Norman Douglas

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

— Norman Douglas

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

— Norman Douglas

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

— Norman Douglas

No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

— Norman Douglas

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

— Norman Douglas

Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.

— Norman Douglas

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is…

— Norman Douglas

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what…

— Norman Douglas

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute…

— Norman Douglas

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it…

— Norman Douglas

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

— Norman Douglas

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that…

— Norman Douglas

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

— Norman Douglas

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

— Norman Douglas

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of…

— Norman Douglas

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

— Norman Douglas

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

— Norman Douglas

How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.

— Norman Douglas

The secret of happiness is curiosity

— Norman Douglas