George William Curtis Quotes

» A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

» He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

» The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

» The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

» It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

» Happiness lies first of all in health.

» While we read history we make history.

» Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

» Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

» The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

» The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

» Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

» Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

» Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!

» Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

» It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

» Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

» Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

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