“There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 109 of 303
“See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead.... It is a hieroglyphic of man's life, and suggests more intimate and important things than the boiling of a pot. Where its fine column rises above the forest, like an ensign, some human life has planted itself,--and such is the beginning of Rome, the establishment of the arts, and the foundation of empires, whether on the prairies of America or the steppes of Asia.”
“Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.”
“Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!”
“If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there.”
“As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.”
“The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.”
“Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.”
“Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.”
“The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.”
“Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.”
“Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?”
“The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?”
“I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.”
“Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.”
“As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.”
“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”
“Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.”
“What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!”
“The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.”