What did Margaret Deland mean by: Conscience that isn’t hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing. - Margaret Deland Author · USA Copy
+ it’s better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Crazy, Sanity, Unhappy, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ conceit is the devil’s horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Conceit, Devil, Horse, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Blow, Enemy, Time, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides? Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Silence, Youth, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader’s frame of mind. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Letters, Mind, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ there couldn’t be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Lying, War, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes! Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Taste, Unhappiness, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ a manufactured interest has no staying quality – especially if it involves any hard work. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Hard Work, Interest, Quality, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn’t have time to react - Jeannette Walls Journalist · USA
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars - Francisco Largo Caballero Politician
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
It isn’t common sense that is paramount in this world, it’s wishful thinking. - Francoise Sagan Playwright · France