67 Quotes by Norman Douglas

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.