Norman Douglas Quotes

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• Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
• The secret of happiness is curiosity
• It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
• To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.
• Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.
• Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each…
• He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to…
• 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…
• One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
• Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
• How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
• They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
• The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
• The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the…
• There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.
• The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
• What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly…
• It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her…
• The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
• The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

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