Walter Stegner Famous Quotes



"Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."


Walter Stegner Quotations






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Nobody gets to live life backwards. Look ahead -- that's where your future lies.
Ann Landers

"Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul."
Saint Teresa of Avila

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
Derek Curtis Bok

Every invalid is a doctor.
Irish Proverb

"It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep."
Psalm 1272 Bible

Only dreamers can teach us to soar.
Anne Marie Pierce

"Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other."
Japanese Proverb

"If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
Sir Thomas Beecham

"The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy