Reese's Half-Hidden Quote Blog

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it.

...man's tragic dependency on art...

I am myself plus my circumstances.

In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below, to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Tout vrai langage serait incomprehensible.

I live within my income, but surely you don't expect me to vacation there!

The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.

[Of democracy] Un esprit Belge.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

We think in generalities but we live in detail.

In the field of song I fear no one, and being the best is always pleasant.

Elle avait eu, comme un autre, son histoire d'amour. (She, like anyone else, had her love story.)

There isn't a single decent human being I know who is an economist.

What are words but words to use? 

Reason must rule. Nice idea but seldom works when emotions are involved.

Art is anything you can get away with.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent those mistakes from being corrected.

Time is money--says the vulgarest saw known to any age or people. Turn it around, and you get a precious truth--money is time. I think of it in these dark, mist-blinded mornings, as I come down to find a glorious fire crackling and leaping in my study. Suppose I were so poor I could not afford that heartsome blaze how different the whole day would be! Have I not lost many and many a day of my life for lack of the material comfort which was necessary to put my mind in tune? Money is time.

Ubi panis, ibi patria.