Quotes by George Curtis

• The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
• The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
• The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
• The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
• Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
• Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
• Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
• Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
• Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
• It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
• Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
• Happiness lies first of all in health.
• Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
• Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
• A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
• While we read history we make history.
• It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.