Norman Douglas Quotes

• A child of eight is many-sided. By eighteen most of his auspicious angles have been polished away; he is standardised; transformed, perhaps into the perfect citizen. Your perfect citizen may be a fine fellow, but he is not the perfect man.

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• To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him__two.

  Norman Douglas

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• Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

  Norman Douglas

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• As to abuse__I thrive on it. Abuse, hearty abuse, is a tonic to all save men of indifferent health.

  Norman Douglas

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• It is the drawback of all sea-side places that half the landscape is unavailable for purposes of human locomotion, being covered by useless water.

  Norman Douglas

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• Don Francesco was a fisher of men, and of women. He fished ad maiorem Dei gloriam, and for the fun of the thing. It was his way of taking exercise.

  Norman Douglas

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• Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

  Norman Douglas

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• They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

  Norman Douglas

• 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

• The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship.

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• Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

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• Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

  Norman Douglas

• Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

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• It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

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• Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

  Norman Douglas

• A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

  Norman Douglas

• The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

  Norman Douglas

• To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two.

  Norman Douglas

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• 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

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• You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

  Norman Douglas

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Norman Douglas (20)

Birth:	8th December, 1868
Death:	7th February, 1952
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

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