Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.
-- Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

#Health #Sacrifice #Two
Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and, if you cannot contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born.
-- Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

#Names #May #Losing
There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.
-- Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

#Heart #Love Is #Feelings
Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.
-- Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

#Love #Rivals #Instinct
Whoever, with an earnest soul, Strives for some end from this low world afar, Still upward travels though he miss the goal, And strays--but towards a star.
-- Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

#Stars #Hero #Goal
A woman may live without a lover, but a lover once admitted, she never goes through life with only one. She is deserted, and cannot bear her anguish and solitude, and hence fills up the void with a second idol.
-- Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

#Love #Idols #Solitude

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide
Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
I had the constitution of a missionary.
I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?
Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer famous quotes

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