Quotes

Any mummery will cure if the patient's faith is strong in it. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain Old habit of mind is one of the toughest things to get away from in the world. It transmits itself like physical form and feature. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain "You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous." ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain "People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise." ~ Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham "You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action." ~ Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham "Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five." ~ Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded. ~ Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. ~ Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham "Art," he continued, with a wave of the hand, "is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life." ~ Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor. ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville