Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Quote by Christopher Morley

Topics: Beauty Quotes, Grief Quotes, Pain Quotes

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your...

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your...

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess...

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess...

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what...

Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what...

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five...

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five...

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your...

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your...

All students can learn.

All students can learn.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we...

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we...

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with...

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with...

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours...

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours...