Wieland Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Wieland


Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.	1
For whatever man has, is in reality only a gift.	2
Fresh as the lovely form of youthful May, when nymphs and graces in the dance unite.	3
It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it; was by taking to his heels in time.	4
Man blindly works the will of fate.	5
Oft have I thought—jabber as he will, how learned soever, man knows nothing but what he has learned from experience!	6
Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it, which is always a source of pleasure to sensible people.	7
The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.	8
The compulsion of fate is bitter.	9
To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest when they are most silent.	10