Tuwim Julian Quotes & Sayings

Even the most beautiful legs end somewhere. — Julian Tuwim

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes. — Julian Tuwim

There are two kinds of blood, the blood that flows in the veins and the blood that flows out of them.
— Julian Tuwim

Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress, his efforts to begin over again and continue, all seem to me like so many prodigies which nearly compensate for the monstrous mass of ills and defeats, of indifference and error. Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time. — Marguerite Yourcenar

The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprized in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching agst every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings. — James Madison

Tragedy
to fall in love with a face, and marry the whole woman. — Julian Tuwim

I'll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty! — Emily Bronte

Success
something your friends will never forgive you. — Julian Tuwim

Sara: Tegan just recently discovered that unicorns don't exist.
Tegan: I just thought they were extinct. — Tegan Quin

We're an adaptable species," she said, refusing to be stopped, "but it's wrong to inflict suffering just because your victim can endure it." "Learn — Octavia E. Butler

A virtuous girl never chases after boys; who ever saw a mousetrap chasing mice? — Julian Tuwim

The only action that has vaster repercussions for the universe than making a life is TAKING one... which is why I'll never understand why most people put so little foresight into doing either. — Brian K. Vaughan

Fidelity
a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch. — Julian Tuwim

If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well used verbs is the main trouble with modern English writing. Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper. — Rudolf Flesch

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place. — Jewel

This is the shade of difference: the door
of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open. — Victor Hugo

It has been the will of Heaven," the essay began, "that we should be thrown into existence at a period when the greatest philosophers and lawgivers of antiquity would have wished to live ...
a period when a coincidence of circumstances without example has afforded to thirteen colonies at once an opportunity of beginning government anew from the foundation and building as they choose. How few of the human race have ever had the opportunity of choosing a system of government for themselves and their children? How few have ever had anything more of choice in government than in climate? — David McCullough

He strode toward the bathroom door, but Vera launched herself at him like a flying squirrel coasting to another tree. — T.S. Joyce

No happiness gives happiness until you share it with someone. — Lokendra Singh

The difference between camels and men; a camel can work a week and not drink; a man can drink a week and not work. — Julian Tuwim

Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth. — Julian Tuwim

Conscience: that quiet voice which whispers that someone is watching. — Julian Tuwim

Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain. — Julian Tuwim

Egoist is someone who cares more for himself than me. — Julian Tuwim

If a teacher wants to know something why doesn't she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she's the teacher! — Bel Kaufman

In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us. — James Comey