Norman Douglas was a famous Writer from United Kingdom, who lived between December 8, 1868 and February 7, 1952. He/she became 83 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac sagittarius, who is known for Philosophical, Motion, Experimentation, Optimism.
Our collection contains 16 quotes who is written / told by Norman.
16 Famous quotes by Norman Douglas
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising"
"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship"
"The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day"
"Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague"
"Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it"
"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends"
"It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest"
"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes"
"Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty"
"A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner"
"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"
"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?"
"To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two"
"They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves"
"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"
"The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying"
