Max Beerbohm Professions : Essayist Born : August 24, 1872 Died : May 20, 1956 Browse All Authors Top 101 quotes by Max Beerbohm Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. Max Beerbohm golden weight people To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. Max Beerbohm kindness inspirational giving The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions. Max Beerbohm real education thinking The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. Max Beerbohm wise work art Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise. Max Beerbohm humans hero praise Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter. Max Beerbohm legends laughter thinking Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs. Max Beerbohm triumph humility acceptance You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. Max Beerbohm legs sheep men Only the insane take themselves seriously. Max Beerbohm godly insane insanity History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another. Max Beerbohm historian doe history Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge. Max Beerbohm students oxford school We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. Max Beerbohm listening dream talking "After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak." Max Beerbohm girl speak sex There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. Max Beerbohm failure life fall There is laughter that goes so far as to lose all touch with its motive, and to exist only, grossly, in itself. This is laughter at its best. A man to whom such laughter has often been granted may happen to die in a work-house. No matter. I will not admit that he has failed in life. Another man, who has never laughed thus, may be buried in Westminster Abbey, leaving more than a million pounds overhead. What then? I regard him as a failure. Max Beerbohm laughter house men Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists. Max Beerbohm nightmare poor inspirational Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes. Max Beerbohm theme vanity men Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. Max Beerbohm hateful objects hatred No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'. Max Beerbohm able lasts night Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. Max Beerbohm nonsense inspiration matter Similar Authors Arland Ussher essayist Amy Levy essayist Alain Finkielkraut essayist Ahad Ha'am essayist Agnes Repplier essayist Ilan Stavans essayist All Authors
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