Maurice Baring Famous Quotes



"Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary."


Maurice Baring Quotations






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Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Thomas Alva Edison

"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."
Maria Montessori

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees.
Boris Marshalov

Literature is news that stays news.
Ezra Pound

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert

"We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos."
D H Lawrence

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
Lee Iacocca

The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.
Anon

"Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage."
Charles Luckman