Quotations from Everywhere

(Part Twenty)

Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

People that seem so glorious are all show: underneath they are like everyone else.

Change alone is unchanging.

I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Be still my heart thou hast known worse than this.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

What is art but a way of seeing?

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

Books authors are men of higher stature: the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

We usually get what we anticipate.

God often pays debts without money.

Character development is the aim of education.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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