Paul McCabe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.

  • As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.

  • An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.

  • All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

  • It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

  • There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

  • Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

  • The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.

  • Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

  • I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.

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