black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.

John Galsworthy

Related Topics

Environ Hot Iron Meddle Peril See

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Back Body Long Look Stretch Work
Life calls the tune, we dance.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

All Dance Life Tune We
A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Against Blue Dark Flame Guardian Moomin Passionate Peak Snowy Treemstand
The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Added Express Familiar Individually Itself Perfection Resentful Retirement Something Style
It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Become Beyond Dog Muteness Peace Play So Torture Trick Utterly Value Word
Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Country Driver Fare Hesitation Man Refuse Some Young
It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Country Describing Enough Get Good Ink Movement Penultimate People Person Physical Place Sensation Spend State Time To
It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Another Cement Continual Everlasting Feel However Human Life Onself Real Refreshment Replacement Unconscious
The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Both Same Clothes Degree Demonstration Exactly High Prevent Same Voice
Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Born Change New Only Out Salvation Stir
It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Bring Count Fortitude Into Life
There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

House Limbo Pass Soul Time
We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Argument Believe Dreadful Enough Familiar Maske None War
And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Better Builder Curb Honorably Life Prejudice Seek Speak Truth
Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Believe Circle Creed Enwrap Hand Humanism Men Mystery Own
Headlines twice the size of the events.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Event Headlines Size Twice
Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beauty Mean One Other Perhaps Person
For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Dompting Itch Ourselves Outside Previous Shut
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Direct Distance Idealism Increase One Problem Proportion
For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Cry Preserve Rather Rebel Sometimes Unblest
Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Stang Vigorous
One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Become Eye Mouth One
We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Case Degree Emotion Every Kind Known Precious Same Uplift
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beginning Ending Human
Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beauty Complete Instinct Love Nothing One Really Satisfy Sex Union
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beginning End Human Undertaking Untidy
Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Give Itself Justice Machine Once Push Roll Some Start

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes