Robert Graves Famous Quotes
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Robert Graves Quotations
How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese
Charles De Gaulle
"Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you."
Lord Chesterfield
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
Henry David Thoreau
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop
"To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Authenticity matters little, though our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility."
Barbara Mikkelson
"Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners."
Josh Billings
Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.
Pearl Bailey
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
Robert Whitney Boynton
"Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you."
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