18 Quotes by David McCord

Books fall open, you fall in

Books fall open, you fall in.

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit.