Elizabeth Drew Famous Quotes
"The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it."
"Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation."
Elizabeth Drew Quotations
"God bears with the wicked, but not forever."
Miguel de Cervantes
"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."
Mark Twain
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Titus Maccius Plautus
"If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self ... so the hell with it ... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me."
Albert Einstein
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it."
Elizabeth Bowen
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
Phillips Brooks
"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else."
Oswald Chambers
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein