Quotes
Quotes about End
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree: A spruce little fellow as ever could be; His bill was so yellow, his feathers so black, So long was his tail, and so glossy his back, That good Mrs. B., who sat hatching her eggs, And only just left them to stretch her poor legs, And pick for a minute the worm she preferred, Thought there never was seen such a beautiful bird.
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.
Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.
On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
Fortune befriends the bold.
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end: and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.
Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
