Best Quotes by Norman Douglas (Top 10)
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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
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Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
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To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
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Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.
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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
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Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
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Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
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More Norman Douglas Quotes
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The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
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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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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
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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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The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
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The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
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They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
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It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
Norman Douglas