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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children (It Is Quotes)
We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure (It Is Quotes)
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness (It Is Quotes)
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only (It Is Quotes)
It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose (It Is Quotes)
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do (It Is Quotes)
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase? (It Is Quotes)
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds (It Is Quotes)
When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who do (It Is Quotes)
It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each other's stories; for it they did not, they would burst (It Is Quotes)
I was reading Dorothy Dix this afternoon; she says that it is permissible for a young man to tell a girl he knows fairly well that she has pretty ankles; from this I assume that the better he knows her the higher he may praise her (It Is Quotes)
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way (It Is Quotes)
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge (It Is Quotes)
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great (It Is Quotes)
The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life (It Is Quotes)
It is not my intention to denounce modern education. If it is bad, it may be said that all education is bad which is not self-education, and quite a lot of self-education is going on today - some of it in our schools, under the very noses of the teachers! (It Is Quotes)
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves (It Is Quotes)
It is not as though do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law was a precept from which splendid fiction could not be drawn; it is rather that what these small-time rebels choose to do is so trivial, so cheap, and in the end, so dreary (It Is Quotes)
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself (It Is Quotes)
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the elephant or the lion or the antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of evolution (It Is Quotes)
Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry (It Is Quotes)
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else (It Is Quotes)
Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination (It Is Quotes)
Long toil and short leisure are part of the heavy price we pay for our North American standard of living. It is reputed to be the highest in the world, and so it should be, for it is bought at an inordinate price (It Is Quotes)
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate (It Is Quotes)
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted history? (It Is Quotes)
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge (It Is Quotes)
The devil gave me a look which made me profoundly uneasy. 'Just because I am enjoying your sympathy, don't imagine that I cannot read you like a book,' he said. 'You think you are cleverer than I; it is a very common academic delusion (It Is Quotes)
Such rebellion is too deep and too constant to express itself in picketing, marching, sitting-in or freaking out; it is the serious, unresting protest of serious people. It is 24-hours-a-day rebellion, not intermittent, showy, status-seeking public uproar. It is rebellion as a way of life (It Is Quotes)
Happiness is a by-product. It is not a primary product of life. It is a thing which you suddenly realize you have because you're so delighted to be doing something which perhaps has nothing whatever to do with happiness (It Is Quotes)