Norman Douglas

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#humor #food

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#hardship #pine #stays #winter #wisdom

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#be the first #civic #distrust #duty #first

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#ideals #nation #tell #you

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#education

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#fool #had #handle #honest #lie

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#found #friends #his #home #man

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#believe #cheerful #considerable #daily #daily work

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#dish #every #every day #lives #longer

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#dying #living #sublimity #things #those