Robert Smith Surtees Famous Quotes
"'Humph' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he."
Robert Smith Surtees Quotations
"Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral."
Vernon A Walters
"There are no answers, only cross-references."
Joe Moore
"The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat."
Vilhjlmur Stefnsson
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
AnneSophie Swetchine
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
Winifred Holtby
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
Thomas a Kempis
"Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."
F Scott
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
Hippocrates
"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."
Lewis Thomas
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson