James Gould Cozzens Famous Quotes
Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.
James Gould Cozzens Quotations
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
"The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too."
Saint Teresa of Avila
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain"
William Shakespeare
"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
La Rochefoucauld
There is no legal obligation to perform impossibilities.
Publius Celsus
Who depends on another man's table often dines late.
Italian Proverb
"If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke."
Brendan Francis
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt."
Henry Graham Greene
"In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth."
Rabindranath Tagore