Kauwendael Quotes & Sayings

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters. — Samuel Johnson

Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool! — Charles Spurgeon

The way, they were — Willa Cather

How do I get past my fears? Make a life for myself? Risk loving someone? When death is all that waits for you, what's the point in trying to have a life? — Colleen Houck

Many days later another caravan was passing and a man saw something on top of the highest dune there. And when they went up to see, they found Outka, Mimouna and Aicha; they were still there, lying the same way as when they had gone to sleep. And all three of the glasses,' he held up his own little tea glass, 'were full of sand. That was how they had their tea in the Sahara. — Paul Bowles

A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in. — Elizabeth Bard

To attribute these two great developments to the Central Committee, is to take a very narrow view of civilization. The Central Committee announced the developments, it is true, but they were no more the cause of them than were the kings of the imperialistic period the cause of war. — E. M. Forster

When the Sovereign pushed against me, I bent like Gold should, with grace, with dignity. But now she cuts at me, and beneath the grace, beneath the aplomb, her knife will strike iron. We make for Mars, and for war. — Pierce Brown

It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket. — Sara Coleridge