black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.

Related Topics

Always Business Fine General Large Meaningless Relate Romance Term

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Bounce Custom Fight Find Get Irritation Pack Through Ticket Train Wash
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Been Being Contentment Fact Gain Human Large Meditation Not Permanent Recover Upon Yet
The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Aware Behind Cocktail Desire Devastatimng Exhilaration Fill Whirling
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Affection Discomfort Friend Greta Hearty More Nothing Old One Tendency
Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Escape Scientist Something Writer
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Basketball Bbbit Call Clan Custom Game Gave Homicidal Instinct Outlet Patriotism Side
To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Country Devil Live People Person Soul
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Careful Damm Executive Great Measure Men Merriment Run Shop Smile
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Divine Doom Grace Hell Most Rose Think When
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Being Give High Man Oratory Principle
God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Around Catch Creep Disobey Done God Much never Try
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Bad Courage Form From Pugnacity Very
Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Always Business Fine General Large Meaningless Relate Romance Term
It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Aaraom Anxious Being Believe Do Except might Mind Perhaps Satan
What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

All Color Glorious Hue Listen Love Many Out Rainbow Stand
You have more people that love you than you know.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Know Love More People You
It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Board Country High Make Mind Mountain Myth Necessary One Our Favorite Plain Purpose
We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

All Cookies Ever May Sick Sicker Too
Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

City Power Reclaim Vast Wander
Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Better Country Emotionally Ever Know Other She
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Achievement Citizen Come Dozen Each Easy Except Half Ignorance Proud Town
So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Much Nothing Revolution Wait
Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Dog My Sleep With
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Better Criticize Custom Love Much Think Yourself
To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Being Blue Country Human Literature Palin Professor Something True University
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Bible Dicate Explain Hire Minister Perfect Race Since
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Age Hit Less Need Old People Person Tragedy Upon Vigorous Youth

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes