Norman Douglas Quotes - Page 2

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• It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

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  Wise, Lying, Men

  Norman Douglas (1957). “Siren Land: And Fountains in the Sand”, London : Secker & Warburg

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• A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

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  Attitude, Believe, Men

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• I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.

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  Drinking, Reading, Tea

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.282, Courier Corporation

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• Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.

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  Wine, Aphrodisiac, Mating

  Norman Douglas (1932). “Paneros, Some Words on Aphrodisiacs and the Like”

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• Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

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  Friendship, Home, Men

  South Wind (1917) ch. 20

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• One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

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  Change, Time, Wedges

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• How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.

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  Communication, Often Is, Left

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• No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

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  Majority, Motive, Ignoble

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

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  Real, Book, Real Life

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

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  Imagination, Deities, Weakness

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.219, Courier Corporation

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• They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

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  Inspirational, Relationship, Neighbor

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• There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

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  Moral, Kind, Outlook

  Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”

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• Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

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  Education, School, Echoes

  1929 How About Europe?

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• The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

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  Family, Disappointment

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• Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.

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  Justice, People, Not Good Enough

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• The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

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  Hustle, Age, Spirit

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• He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

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  Mind, Atheism, Scylla

  Norman Douglas (2014). “South Wind”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

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  Funny, Mother, Children

  Norman Douglas (2014). “South Wind”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

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  Rude, Half, Pay

  Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”

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• People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.

  Norman Douglas

  People, Reform, Neighbor

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