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
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. - Norman Douglas
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. - Norman Douglas
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong. - Norman Douglas
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. - Norman Douglas
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
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
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. - Norman Douglas