Caught Quotes - Page 33

• Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

  Horace

  Cunning, Disguise

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• Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.

  Horace

  Sometimes

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• I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, Echoes, Parent

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• Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Wise, World, Might

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.166, e-artnow

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• Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Lying, Men

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.590

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• Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Heart, Journey

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”

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• [On plastic surgery:] My motto is: 'Anything that can be lifted should be lifted. Anything that falls should be caught. And try to catch any falling stuff before it hits the ground.

  Joan Rivers

  Fall, Trying, Stuff

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• Love is friendship that has caught fire. ... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't brood over the past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

  Ann Landers

  Disappointment, Past, Love Is

  Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Sight

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• Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.

  Rose Macaulay

  Time, Flower, Past

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Told by an Idiot”, p.66, A&C Black

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• There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Art, Thinking, Perception

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• it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Struggle, Book, Fall

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• We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Artist, Differences, Vision

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.195, Open Road Media

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• Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Love, Art, Flower

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• In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Travel, Believe, Years

  Katherine Mansfield (2016). “KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...”, p.345, e-artnow

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• A hare is not caught with a drum.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Hares, Caution

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• This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Heart, Men

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• The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.

  Edmund Spenser

  Bait, Fishes, Bites

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• ... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping hare is caught in a marble panel.) A glaze is put over life. There is no flaw, no crack in the surface; a still reservoir, no ripple on its face. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. The waterfalls seemed frozen solid; the tops of the trees were still; the river hardly stirred, a serpent gently moving under its shimmering skin.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Morning, Moving, Light

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• Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high,
  Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye,
  Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired,
  Where graybeard mirth and smiling toil retired,
  Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound,
  And news much older than their ale went round.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lying, Eye, Nuts

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Biographical Memoir of the Author, Written Expressly for this Edition”, p.100

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• Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

  John Milton

  Eye, Rivers, Clouds

  c.1631 L'Allegro, l.69-76.

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• there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sugar, Duration, Jars

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• Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

  Marya Mannes

  Vices, Likes

  Marya Mannes (1986). “The Best of Marya Mannes”

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• ... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that?

  Iris Murdoch

  Telling The Truth

  Iris Murdoch (1977). “Under the Net”, p.16, Penguin

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• Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

  L. Frank Baum

  Sweet, Children, Book

  Introduction to "The Lost Princess of Oz", 1917.

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