George William Curtis Quotes
-
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
→ -
Good taste consists first upon fitness.
→ -
A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.
→ -
Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
→ -
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
→ -
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
→ -
Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
→ -
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
→ -
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
→ -
The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
→ -
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
→ -
I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!"
→ -
Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
→ -
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
→ -
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
→ -
Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their country. So, through all history, to the end, as long as men believe in God that army must still march and fall, recruited only from the flower of mankind, cheered only by their own hope of humanity, strong only in the confidence of their cause.
→ -
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
→ -
The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
→ -
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
→ -
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
→ -
Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
→ -
In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
→ -
While we read history we make history.
→ -
Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
→ -
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
→ -
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
→ -
For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
→ -
Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
→ -
Happiness is speechless.
→ -
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
→