It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

Quote by E M Forster

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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none...

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none...

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it...

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it...

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

History develops, art stands still.

History develops, art stands still.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own...

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own...

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must...

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must...

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children...

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children...

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humor.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humor.

Ideas are fatal to caste

Ideas are fatal to caste

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be...

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be...

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a...

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a...

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had...

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had...

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.