Edward Dowden famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

  • What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ***** back?

  • The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.

  • Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

  • I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.

  • Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

  • Congratulations is the civility of envy.

  • Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

  • It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

  • For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.