Dame Rose Macaulay Famous Quotes
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
"He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful."
"At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
Dame Rose Macaulay Quotations
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Jalal udDin Rumi
Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.
Vivian Baxter
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
Virgil
Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.
Sicilian Proverb
"When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food."
Desiderius Erasmus
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."
Anon
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
Jules Renard
"While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions."
Stephen Covey
"If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation-and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress."
Robert Francis Kennedy
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Irving Kristol