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
+ A pint can’t hold a quart – if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Expected, 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
+ Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people’s troubles. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024February 8, 2024, Margaret Deland, Lawyer, 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
+ One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Alive, Desire, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ When one promise jostles another, one of ’em isn’t a promise. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Ems, Promise, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Genius, Teaching, Useless, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ … some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Floating, Memories, 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