14 Quotes By George William Curtis


Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
George William Curtis on anger

Happiness lies first of all in health.
George William Curtis on fitness

Happiness lies first of all in health.
George William Curtis on happiness

Happiness lies first of all in health.
George William Curtis on health

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
George William Curtis on imagination

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
George William Curtis on intelligence

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.
George William Curtis on patriotism

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.
George William Curtis on poetry

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.
George William Curtis on romantic

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
George William Curtis on wisdom

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
George William Curtis on women

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
George William Curtis on women

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.
George William Curtis on women

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.
George William Curtis on memorial day