Gerald Brenan Quotes & Sayings
14 most famous Gerald Brenan quotes and sayings (writer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.”
“Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.”
“Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.”
“We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.”
“Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.”
“You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.”
“Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.”
“We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.”
“A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.”
“As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.”
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