Löis Lancaster Quotes

What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.

They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.

He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.

My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.

I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.

Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.

In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.

I've lived too long and I've lived too well.

Im a pretty organised traveller.

If I had a partner who asked when I was going to the gym or commented that I was eating too much or asked if I really needed an extra potato, that would make me feel awful. It would be terrible.

As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.

There's less pressure to look good as you get older.

Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.

Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.

Without the friendship we'd never have discovered the reason we were friends.

When did wishing someone a Merry Christmas become politically incorrect?

I have no desire to spend every night of the next few months at balls and soirees or drowning in tea with morning callers.

Seduction is the art of saying what you don't do in order to do what you don't say

Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory.

Not if you like lies so much you want to live one

Don't be afraid of Pain. Pain only comes down to a certain point... beyond that, it can't reach you and the love you have inside.

Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.

You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finaly weed out al the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce.

Dreams so often become nightmares. Family can so easily become foes. And people are always more stupid than you give them credit for.

Failed expectations ruin marriages and kills love in the process. You and your partner deserve to know what you’re both getting into… and knowing now is better than later. .

Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they’re scared, adults have no more answers than us kids

I don't think tour dying. I think you've just got a touch of cancer.

I think that's what we all want, in the end.To know that we left footprints when we passed by, however briefly.We want to be remembered.So remember us.Please.Remember us.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

Your faith is what you believe not what you know.

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space in which to live.

If all were gentle and contented as sheep all would be as feeble and helpless.

Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.