Quotes By Norman Douglas

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

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

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

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

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

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

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

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

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 body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

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