Dean Inge Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.”

“A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.”

“It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.”

“Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.”

“The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.”

“To marry is to get a binocular view of life.”

“Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.”