22 ordspråk av Holbrook Jackson
Holbrook Jackson
 A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with a sort of greedy enjoyment, as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was saturated with the bouquet of silence. |
| A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children. |
| As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it |
| Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. |
| Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. |
| Genius is initiative on fire. |
| Intuition is reason in a hurry. |
| Man is a dog's idea of what God should be |
| No man is ever old enough to know better. |
| No one is ever old enough to know better |
| Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness. |
| Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice. |
| Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge |
| Suffer fools gladly; they may be right. |
| The end of reading is not more books but more life. |
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