What did Norman Douglas mean by: One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out. Norman Douglas Writer Copy
Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Norman Douglas, Alcoholism, Caution, Romance, 0 Norman Douglas Writer
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Norman Douglas, Cynicism, Majority, Motives, 0 Norman Douglas Writer
How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Norman Douglas, Communication, Resolution, Silence, 0 Norman Douglas Writer
Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Norman Douglas, Awareness, Beauty, Imagination, 0 Norman Douglas Writer
There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Norman Douglas, Goodness, Literature, Realism, 0 Norman Douglas Writer
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Norman Douglas, Death, Life, Wisdom, 0 Norman Douglas Writer
Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Norman Douglas, Inequality, Justice, Morality, 0 Norman Douglas Writer
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Norman Douglas, Betrayal, Friendship, Hospitality, 0 Norman Douglas Writer
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
A man can keep another’s secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
