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Letter "G" » George Norman Douglas Quotes
«You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do»
Author: George Norman Douglas
(Composer)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
age, Age of Man, character, construct, constructing, constructs, fails, not only, says
«To find a friend, one must close one eye; to keep him, two.»
«The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.»
Author: George Norman Douglas
(Composer)
«Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest»
«You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.»
Author: George Norman Douglas
(Composer)
| About:
Advertising,
Ideals,
Nations
| Keywords:
advertisements, ideals
«Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.»
Author: George Norman Douglas
(Composer)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
controlled, echoes, manufactory
«How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.»
«No great man is ever born too soon or too late.»
Author: George Norman Douglas
(Composer)
«Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes»
Author: George Norman Douglas
(Composer)
| Keywords:
bouillabaisse, cared, cigar, cooked, nutritious, stumps, the French
«Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.»
Author: George Norman Douglas
(Composer)
| Keywords:
attend, attend to, at present, capacities, elementary, misunderstand, offspring, requirements, surprising
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