Norman Douglas Quotes
British - Writer December 8, 1868 - February 7, 1952
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
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.
Norman Douglas
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
Norman Douglas
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
Norman Douglas
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
Norman Douglas
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
Norman Douglas
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.
Norman Douglas
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Norman Douglas
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Norman Douglas
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
Norman Douglas
To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas
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.
Norman Douglas
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Norman Douglas
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Norman Douglas
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas
Paul Klee Quotes
Swiss - Artist December 8, 1879 - June 29, 1940
One eye sees, the other feels.
Paul Klee
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
Paul Klee
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Paul Klee
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
Paul Klee
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
Paul Klee
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
Paul Klee
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Paul Klee
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Paul Klee
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Paul Klee
Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
Paul Klee
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
Paul Klee
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
Paul Klee
A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
Paul Klee
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
Paul Klee
He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
Paul Klee
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
Paul Klee
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
Paul Klee
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
Paul Klee
James Thurber Quotes
American - Author December 8, 1894 - November 2, 1961
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
James Thurber
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
James Thurber
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
James Thurber
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
James Thurber
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
James Thurber
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
James Thurber
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
James Thurber
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
James Thurber
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
James Thurber
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
James Thurber
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
James Thurber
The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
James Thurber
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
James Thurber
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
James Thurber
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
James Thurber
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
James Thurber
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
James Thurber
A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
James Thurber
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
James Thurber
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
James Thurber
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurber
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.
James Thurber
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
James Thurber
Discussion in America means dissent.
James Thurber
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
James Thurber
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
James Thurber
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
James Thurber
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
James Thurber
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
James Thurber
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber
I hate women because they always know where things are.
James Thurber
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
James Thurber
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
James Thurber
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
James Thurber
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
James Thurber
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
James Thurber
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
James Thurber
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
James Thurber
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
James Thurber
Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
James Thurber
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
James Thurber
Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
James Thurber
The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
James Thurber
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
James Thurber
Don't get it right, just get it written.
James Thurber
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber
We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
James Thurber
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
James Thurber
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