Norman Douglas Quotes

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

  Norman Douglas

  Friendship, Eye, Two

  Almanac (1941) p. 77

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• Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

  Norman Douglas

  Firsts, Authority, Should

  Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”

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• The secret of happiness is curiosity

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  Motivational, Happiness, Secret

  Norman Douglas (2014). “South Wind”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Los ideales de una nación se conocen por sus anuncios.

  Norman Douglas

  Business, Advertising, Nigeria Independence

  SouthWind ch. 7 (1917)

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• The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

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  Life, Business, Enjoy

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• Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

  Norman Douglas

  Reading, Men, Fire

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• Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

  Norman Douglas

  Imagination, Ardent

  Norman Douglas (1932). “Paneros, Some Words on Aphrodisiacs and the Like”

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• If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

  Norman Douglas

  Niños, Dar, Querer

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• What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.

  Norman Douglas

  Teaching, Men, Fire

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

  Norman Douglas

  Wisdom, Dying, Sublimity

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• Se puede construir el carácter de un hombre y su época no sólo a partir de lo que hace y dice, sino también de lo que deja de decir y hacer.

  Norman Douglas

  Character, Men, Age

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.337, Courier Corporation

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• The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

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  Food, Artist, Perfect

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.312, Courier Corporation

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

  Norman Douglas

  Winter, Hardship, Green

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• Hay en nosotros un germen o núcleo lírico que merece respeto; invita al hombre a reflexionar o a crear; y en este oscuro rincón de sí mismo puede refugiarse y encontrar consuelos que la sociedad de sus semejantes no le proporciona.

  Norman Douglas

  Men, Doe, Nucleus

  Norman Douglas (1955). “A Selection from His Works”

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• What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

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  Teaching, Men, Order

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• Un hombre tacaño con el azafrán es capaz de seducir a su propia abuela.

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  Food, Grandmother, Men

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• How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

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  Reality, Mind, Sometimes

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• ¿Te doy mi receta para ser feliz? Encuentro todo útil y nada indispensable. Todo me parece maravilloso y nada milagroso. Reverencio el cuerpo. Evito las primeras causas como la peste.

  Norman Douglas

  Felicidad, Risa, Dar

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.164, Courier Corporation

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• Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

  Norman Douglas

  Spring, Flower, Carpe Diem

  Norman Douglas (1930). “Three of them”

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• The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

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  Realizing, Dishes

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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.

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  Food, Trying, Culture

  1911 Siren Land,'Rain on the Hills'.

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• It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

  Norman Douglas

  Issues, Political, Society

  Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”

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• You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

  Norman Douglas

  Truth, Epigrams

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• Se necesita un hombre sabio para manejar una mentira, un tonto es mejor que siga siendo honesto.

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  Wise, Lying, Men

  Norman Douglas (1957). “Siren Land: And Fountains in the Sand”, London : Secker & Warburg

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• Ojalá los ingleses poseyeran aún una pizca del antiguo sentido del humor que el puritanismo, la dispepsia, la lectura de periódicos y el consumo de té casi han extinguido.

  Norman Douglas

  Drinking, Reading, Tea

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.282, Courier Corporation

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