Favorite Quotes

"Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind." - Chambers

 

"Note, that yeast of good Beer, is better then that of Ale." - Digby

 

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Thoreau

 

"Get there first with the most." - Forrest

 

"When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have." - Wister

 

"Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated." - Bulfinch

 

"If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency." - Reynolds

 

"Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health." - Tupper

 

"Dinner was made for eating, not for talking." - Thackeray

 

"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty." - Degas

 

"To withhold from our desires, that is the shortcut to luxury." - Petrarch

 

"The ends must justify the means." - Prior

 

"The only real influence I've ever had was myself." - Hopper

 

"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly." - Strunsky

 

"When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor." - Curran

 

"Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all." - Balfour

 

"Boast is a cry for despair, except in youth it's a cry for hope." - Berenson

 

"Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone." - Belloc

 

"Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize." - Blackie

 

"So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some." - Tarkington