Quote by Miles Franklin Download Open image “It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for.” — Miles Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called! — Francisco de Quevedo Copy Share Image
It is what it is cause it can't be anything but what it is but if it is then it wasn't what it was… — Guillaume L Meyer Copy Share Image
Calling it something else , won't change what it will always be . It is what it is . — Zay Cee Copy Share Image
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the… — Miles Franklin Copy Share
What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand! — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind:… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
“There is any amount of love and good in the world, but you must search for it. Being misunderstood is one of the trials… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
