Norman Douglas Quotes
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."
- Norman Douglas
(Related: Advertising, Ideals, Nation)
"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."
- Norman Douglas
(Related: Age, Character, Man)
"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?"
- Norman Douglas
(Related: Wisdom)
"To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two."
- Norman Douglas
(Related: Friend, Eye)
"They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves."
- Norman Douglas
(Related: Neighbors)
"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."
- Norman Douglas
(Related: Society, Man, Respect)
"The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying."
- Norman Douglas
(Related: Wisdom, Dying, Living)
"A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner."
- Norman Douglas
(Related: Work, Man)
"The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day."
- Norman Douglas
(Related: Day, Nothing)
"Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it."
- Norman Douglas
(Related: People)
"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."
- Norman Douglas
(Related: Home, Friends, Man)
"It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest."
- Norman Douglas
(Related: Lie, Fool, Man)
"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes."
- Norman Douglas
(Related: Education, State)
"Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty."
- Norman Douglas
(Related: Authority, Distrust, Duty, First)
"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship."
- Norman Douglas
(Related: Wisdom, Hardship, Winter)