"I have reached the stage now where luxury……" — Nan Fairbrother
"I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable."
—
Nan Fairbrother
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
12 Quotes by Nan Fairbrother
Nan Fairbrother has 12 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.
-
... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden,…
-
As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a…
-
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that…
-
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
-
There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in…
-
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The…
-
Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole…
-
It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the…
-
Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own…
-
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we…
See all 12 quotes by Nan Fairbrother »
More All Quotes
This quote is filed under All Quotes,
one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
See all 128,558 All Quotes »