Logo
Quote by Norman Douglas
The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously sub

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

Other 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. – Norman Douglas

Category:
respect
Author
Norman Douglas
Read Quote

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

Category:
Wisdom
Author
Norman Douglas
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Miscellaneous
category

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. – Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November

Category:
Miscellaneous

Originality is the art of concealing your source. – Franklin P. Jones

Category:
Miscellaneous

He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle. – Ring Lardner

Category:
Miscellaneous

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881

Category:
Miscellaneous

Random Quotes

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. – Dodie Smith

Category:
Beauty

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. – Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis, 1905

Category:
Science

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind. – Alice Meynell

Category:
Happiness

At the close of a long hot summer, the appearance of the pumpkin heralds the welcome arrival of autumn. – Kari Spencer, www.themicrofarmproject.com

Category:
Autumn