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Things Quotes by Robertson Davies
- What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
- Civilization rests on two things: the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and the voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where…
- The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received…
- Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of…
- A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find…
- It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way
- We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory…
- The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in…
- You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!
- The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to question received opinions…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle