67 Quotes by Norman Douglas

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 pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

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.

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.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.