George William Curtis Quotes & Sayings

“It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.”

“Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.”

“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.”

“The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.”

“Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.”

“The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.”

“Happiness lies first of all in health.”

“The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.”

“The test of civilization is its estimate of women.”

“Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.”