Quotes by Authors - Page 189

The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.
Ann Wigmore
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
Dorothy L. Sayers
I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
Margareth II
It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.
Mary Parker Follett
Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.
Christian Morgenstern
There is only one big thing-desire. And before it when it is big all is little.
Willa Cather
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
Tennessee Williams
Enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Madame de Stael
As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
Bebe Moore Campbell
With renunciation life begins.
Amelia Barr
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
C.S. Lewis
There are three ingredients in the good life learning earning and yearning.
Christopher Morley
The physically fit can enjoy their vices.
Lloyd Percival
1. If your stomach disputes you lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 2. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 3. Go very lightly on the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful.
Satchel Paige
One's first book kiss home run is always the best.
Clifton Fadiman
No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.
Anonymous
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
What the mass media offer is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.
W.H. Auden
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
G.K. Chesterton
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so -bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say "This was their finest hour."
Winston Churchill
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.
Marquis Caraccioli
The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
Stephen Leacock
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Paul Gallico
What should they know of England who only England know?
Rudyard Kipling
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
Margaret Halsey
Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
V.S. Pritchett
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Winston Churchill
In England I would rather be a man a horse a dog or a woman in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.
Bruce Gould
Without class differences England would cease to be the living theatre it is.
Anthony Burgess
There will always be an England While there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.
Clark Ross Parker
The young Cambridge group the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy and a whispering murmuring sort of voice and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.
D.H. Lawrence
The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
Truman Capote
Snobbery - the "pox Britannica"
Anthony Sampson
Land of hope and glory Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee who are borne of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set God who made thee mighty make thee mightier yet.
A.C. Benson
God save our Gracious King Long live our Noble King God save the King. Send Him victorious Happy and Glorious Long to rule over us God save the King.
Henry Carey
Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
David Lloyd George
There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
Christopher Morley
He hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G.K. Chesterton
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Samuel L. Clemens
The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.
Lord Chesterfield
Nothing is more to me than myself.
Max Stirner
Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Martin H. Fischer
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Samuel L. Clemens
Boy handing over his report card: Of course I seem stupid to my teachers . . . they're all college graduates.
Anonymous
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.
Anonymous
Do you think your boy will forget all he learned in college? "I hope so. He can't make a living drinking."
Larry Wilde
I went to a high school that was so dangerous the school newspaper had an obituary column.
Rocky Ray
We didn't feel so good when we took our son to college and saw a sign on the liquor store - Back to School Sale.
Brian Morgan
I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.
Joan Welsh
Letter home from college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369."
Anonymous
When asked to spell Mississippi the boy asked "The river or the state?"
Anonymous
A kindergarten teacher is a woman who knows how to make little things count.
Anonymous
Bumper sticker: My kid beat the heck out of the student of the month.
Anonymous