Norman Douglas Quotes

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

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

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

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

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

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

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

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

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

The business of life is to enjoy oneself everything else is a mockery.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an...

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

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

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

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

The land is encrusted with ephemeral human conceits. That is not altogether good for a youngster; it...

I think modern education over-emphasizes the intellect. I suppose that comes from the scientific tre...