Timothy Shay Arthur famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.
-- Timothy Shay Arthur

#Desire #Easy #Natural
No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession.
-- Timothy Shay Arthur

#Character #Class #Long
When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of domestic life more and more shadows have mingled, then ... and not till then, can the wife say of the husband, "He is worthy of love;" then, first, the husband say of the wife, "She blooms in imperishable beauty.
-- Timothy Shay Arthur

#Marriage #Husband #Wife
It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return.
-- Timothy Shay Arthur

#World #Difficult
Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and becomes old; it is custom which hinders the husband from perceiving the change.
-- Timothy Shay Arthur

#Husband #Home #Wife
Even the heart in time may grow cold.
-- Timothy Shay Arthur

#Heart #Cold
A husband and wife should resolve never to wrangle with each other; never to bandy words or indulge in the least ill-humour. Never! I say; NEVER. Wrangling, even in jest, and putting on an air of ill-humour merely to tease, becomes earnest by practice.
-- Timothy Shay Arthur

#Husband #Wife #Tease

Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.
I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.
Be hard on yourself, easy on others.
I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.
I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.
Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

Timothy Shay Arthur famous quotes

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