Norman Douglas Quotes

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

— Norman Douglas

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

— Norman Douglas

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

— Norman Douglas

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

— Norman Douglas

No great man is ever born too soon or too late. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

— Norman Douglas

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of Norman Douglas Picture Quote

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of

— Norman Douglas

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one’s senses! Norman Douglas Picture Quote

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one’s senses!

— Norman Douglas

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the Norman Douglas Picture Quote

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the

— Norman Douglas

How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.

— Norman Douglas

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

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

— Norman Douglas

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of Norman Douglas Picture Quote

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of

— Norman Douglas

Why always “not yet”? Do flowers in spring say “not yet”? Norman Douglas Picture Quote

Why always “not yet”? Do flowers in spring say “not yet”?

— Norman Douglas

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save Norman Douglas Picture Quote

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save

— Norman Douglas

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

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

— Norman Douglas

The secret of happiness is curiosity Norman Douglas Picture Quote

The secret of happiness is curiosity

— Norman Douglas

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

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

— Norman Douglas

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man Norman Douglas Picture Quote

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man

— Norman Douglas

You can cram a truth into an epigram – the truth, never. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

You can cram a truth into an epigram – the truth, never.

— Norman Douglas

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they Norman Douglas Picture Quote

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they

— Norman Douglas

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity Norman Douglas Picture Quote

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity

— Norman Douglas

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense Norman Douglas Picture Quote

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense

— Norman Douglas

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him…two. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

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

— Norman Douglas

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which Norman Douglas Picture Quote

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which

— Norman Douglas

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

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

— Norman Douglas

The families of our friends are always a disappointment. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

— Norman Douglas

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

— Norman Douglas

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present Norman Douglas Picture Quote

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present

— Norman Douglas

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of Norman Douglas Picture Quote

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of

— Norman Douglas

Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.

— Norman Douglas

People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the Norman Douglas Picture Quote

People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the

— Norman Douglas

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and Norman Douglas Picture Quote

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and

— Norman Douglas

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

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

— Norman Douglas

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; Norman Douglas Picture Quote

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect;

— Norman Douglas

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

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

— Norman Douglas

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

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

— Norman Douglas

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

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

— Norman Douglas

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? Norman Douglas Picture Quote

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness?

— Norman Douglas

The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship.

— Norman Douglas

To find a friend one must close one eye; to keep him, two. Norman Douglas Picture Quote

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

— Norman Douglas

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

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

— Norman Douglas

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