Van Wyck Brooks Famous Quotes
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
"As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day."
Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible."
Van Wyck Brooks Quotations
"If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadores came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, 'I swallowed it. So sue me.'"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious."
Gloria Steinem
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another."
Anatole France
There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.
George Jean Nathan
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett
"An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style."
Alan Simpson
"All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people."
Alexis Carrel
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Anon
"Most certification today is pure 'credentialism.' It must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our appreciation of parchment."
William John Bennett