Arnold McCuller quotes

Arnold McCuller quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Best friends are made are made through smiles and tears, and sometimes that fades away through miles and years.”
-- Arnold McCuller

#Friendship Quotes #Years Quotes #Tears Quotes

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
“The less you talk, the more you're listened to.”

Source : "A Small Encounter With Abigail Van Buren" by Lea Lane, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2013.
“Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.”
“Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.”
“Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn.”
“In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.”

Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.
“I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.”
“They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2006). “50 Poemas”, p.106, Editorial Renacimiento
“Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.”

Source : Aaron Hill, Colley Cibber, John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1817). “Tragedy of Alzira with the Life of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”, p.14
“Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.”

Source : Abram Joseph Ryan (1973). “Selected poems of Father Ryan”

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