Cesar Chavez Best Quotes


Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. Norman Douglas Happy 280
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. Norman Douglas Wisdom 224
To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two. Norman Douglas Friends 172
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. Norman Douglas Authority 135
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising. Norman Douglas Advertising 108
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. Norman Douglas Creativity 90
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. Norman Douglas Character 87
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. Norman Douglas Work 79
Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes. Norman Douglas Food 78
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Norman Douglas Wisdom 73
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. Norman Douglas Echoes 65
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. Norman Douglas Home 61
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves. Norman Douglas Neighbors 56
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. Norman Douglas Reform 55
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. Norman Douglas DeceptionLying 54
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. Norman Douglas Promises 50
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. Norman Douglas Wisdom 49
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. Norman Douglas Children 45
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out. Norman Douglas Time 39
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation. Norman Douglas Doubt 37
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. Norman Douglas Variety 31

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