Gerald Brenan Quotes
"A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: Fool, Living, Old)
"As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more."
- Gerald Brenan
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: Being)
"If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: Love, Brothers)
"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: People, Ideas, Values, Importance, Intellectuals)
"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: Writer)
"The cliche is dead poetry."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: Poetry)
"Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: Money, Love, Poor, World)
"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: People, Ants, Butterflies, Leisure)
"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: Fear, Being)
"You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: Business, Hurt, Man)
"Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: Wisdom, Fallibility, Opinions, Sense)
"In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: Marriage, Wife, HusbClimate)