John Gould famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.
-- John Gould

#Benefits #Lectures #Numb
The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.
-- John Gould

#Food #Zucchini #Hoe
Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.
-- John Gould

#Book #Sky #Two
I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.
-- John Gould

#Children #Food #Thinking
What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived.
-- John Gould

#Nature #Garden #Way
I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.
-- John Gould

#Reading #Thinking #Sight
At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.
-- John Gould

#Moving #Ties #People
Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it.
-- John Gould

#Laughter #Book #Talking

To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.
When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.
What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to build, and build bigger. For the reason why God has given you fruitful harvests is that He might either overcome your avarice or condemn it; wherefore you can have no excuse. But you keep for yourself what He wished to be produced through you for the benefit of many - nay, rather, you rob even yourself of it, since you would better preserve it for yourself if you distributed it to others.
gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.
My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently.
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.
It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lecturesâ€”but far and wide.

John Gould famous quotes

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