Ed Townsend Quotes

One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.

But what are wishes, compared with longings?

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.

The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.

All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.

... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat surface which acts as a mute, and enforces silence on them.

In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

Love amazes, but it does not surprise.

Rouen shone in dark sunlight and a storm swept it away from my eyes and churned up the broad river with waves which pounced up like cats as our train drew out of the arches of the bridge.

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.

I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver from bending but also prevents it from shining.

There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.

Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

When you finally get something together after hours of work and it's good, you know it's not for nothing!

I don't really have a favorite artist - I mean, I really love Drake - but it depends on my mood. I like anything that makes me feel good.

Sometimes you go through those phases where you take your parents for granted, but I really do appreciate everything my mother's done because I know I wouldn't be here if it weren't for her.

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

The most basic boundary-setting word is “no.” It lets others know that we exist apart from them and that we are in control of ourselves.

Nothing was true for long. In time, everything was deconstructed.

I've always believed in spreading the gospel of good books.

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.

Alexander assured her, 'Eva, none of us know our children. Because they are not us.

We were created to make the impossible possible.

Happiness, honor, and great estate, For those who patiently work and wait.

She was alone.She missed him immediately.

If that phone ain't ringing, I assume it still ain't you" Randy Travis

If one were to include one-tenth of the remarkable people one knows, in one's fiction, no one would accept it. Real life remains one's private menagerie.

She had always been comforted by confectionery

An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New"...

Just because you may live your life in recovery, surely doesn't mean the PARTY IS OVER, Nope!, it just means you can remember what you DID LAST NIGHT!".LOL

Getting there isn't half the fun, it's all the fun.

The right way to pray then is any way that allows us to communicate with God.

Truth has beauty power and necessity.

I have a slight addiction to Diet Coke, and, of course, I absolutely shouldn't touch it because it makes the kidneys work really hard.