George Jean Nathan Famous Quotes
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it--to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy."
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan Quotations
Saintliness is also a temptation.
Jean Anouilh
"We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble."
Kahlil Gibran
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb
"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves."
Paul Valery
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
Robertson Davies
Sometimes we want to get away from the busy and hectic city life to find solace in the raging waves of the ocean pounding on the rocks or the turbulent splashing of a bubbling waterfall. At other times we are amazed by the immovable silence of a mountain or the gentle caress of a river overjoyed tat its union with the sea. The topography of a region speaks to each one of us--a secret language that people from all facets of life understand and relate to.
Stuti Garg
Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
George Will
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Walter Cronkite
"Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated."
Paulette Bates Alden
"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers."
Maya Angelou