Author of quotes: Christian Nestell Bowie

Few minds are dying from wear, for the most part they rust from disuse.

After God we owe it to the woman: she gives us life and then gives this life meaning.

Reasonable care of a person is expressed not only in the fact that he never makes mistakes, but in the fact that it prevents its recurrence.

Disaster like a sledge hammer: crushing, forges.

The brain is much more likely to rust than wear out.

Generally outstanding people living alone. Their superiority insulates them: it is both a cause and a consequence of their loneliness.

Activity and sadness are hardly compatible.

It is passion that adds a kiss of sweetness; love makes the kiss action.

Distrust of itself - the cause of most of our failures.

False friends, like a shadow, following us around, while we walk in the sun, and immediately leaving as soon as we enter into the shadows.

Gaiety of temper gives us longevity in life, and then in the memory of others.

The man, satisfied with what he achieved will never be famous even more. He had gone to die, and the grass had grown.

Kindness is the language which dumb can speak and who hears and understands deaf.
(Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak and which the deaf can hear.)

The illusion is as well necessary to our happiness as reality.