39 Quotes by Gilbert Parker

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.