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Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
SAMUEL DAVIES
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb
ROBERTSON DAVIES
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the ideal...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest sur...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Wisdom is a variable possession. Every man is wise when pursued by a mad dog, fewer when pursued by ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
It is better to have loved and lost, than to have paid for it and not liked it at all.
GRAHAM DAVIES
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all su...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinar...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a...
DAVE DAVIES
I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.
RAY DAVIES
In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybod...
NICK DAVIES
The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together ...
NICK DAVIES
You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.
LYNN DAVIES
There's so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the...
LYNN DAVIES
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are readin...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the concep...
PAUL DAVIES
When seniors first come here, they're apprehensive. But once they're here, they see that it's a warm...
BARBARA DAVIES
The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year's Eve in 1981. T...
ALAN DAVIES
This is an important historical site which is now a leisure facility and I feel certain that there i...
BARRY DAVIES