If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.

Quote by Robertson Davies

Topics: Common Quotes, Love Quotes, Passion Quotes

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody....

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody....

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with...

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with...

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more...

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more...

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind,...

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind,...

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we...

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we...

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more...

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more...

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a...

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a...

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the...

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the...

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many...

Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many...

I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much,...

I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much,...