Daubney Quotes & Sayings

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
What matters most are the simple pleasures so abundant that we can all enjoy them ... Happiness doesn't lie in the objects we gather around us. To find it, all we need to do is open our eyes. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed. — Thomas Browne

The world is ... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Two questions I can't really answer about fiction are 1) where it comes from, and 2) why we need it. But that we do create it and also crave it is beyond dispute. — Marilynne Robinson

Life is an unknown deadline. — Ben Tolosa

I never stopped doing what I did as a child. — Carl Andre

This scroll, majestic in its severe simplicity, illuminated a little slip of front garden abutting on the thirsty high-road, where a few of the dustiest of leaves hung their dismal heads and led a life of choking. — Charles Dickens

The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator. — Joseph P. Bradley

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books; for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers the true practical system can be learned only in the world. — Henry Fielding

It is hard to leave home, and sometimes it takes a long time. * — John Darnielle

I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense. — Richard Sherman

There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder or only illuminated; but that blaze and that confusion would be dear to Mr. Daubney if he could stand as the centre figure, the great pyrotechnist who did it all, red from head to foot with the glare of the squibs with which his own hands were filling all the spaces. — Anthony Trollope