Henry Havelock Ellis Famous Quotes
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself."
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life
"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
Henry Havelock Ellis Quotations
"When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself."
Nancy Friday
"I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another"
Theodore Hesburgh
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
Publilius Syrus
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
Seneca
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
Hippocrates
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.
Jeseph Joubert
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
George Eliot
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
Mother Theresa
"A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future."
Henry M Wriston
A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac