Logo
Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on th

Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Mind
category

It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Mind

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Mind

Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

Category:
Mind

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles. – Horace Walpole, letter to the Countess of Ailesbury, 1779 July 10th

Category:
Mind

Random Quotes

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms. – Sir Thomas Browne

Category:
Logic

To be a successful father… theres one absolute rule: when you have a kid, dont look at it for the first two years. – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
Father

Im a strong person, Im a strong family man, Im a strong husband and a strong father. – David Beckham

Category:
Family

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. – James Russell Lowell

Category:
Experience