T. S. Eliot Quotes
"April is the cruellest month."
"Home is where one starts from."
"Saints are not made by accident."
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
"The work of creation is never without travail."
"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper."
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
"In Heaven the Saints are most high, having made themselves most low."
"It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves."
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
"The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason."
"People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events."
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."
"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."
"Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment."
"It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind."
"A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good."
"Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."
"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them."
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
"All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords."
"The world turns and the world changes, But one thing does not change. In all of my years, one thing does not change, However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil."
"Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity. Not so in Heaven. A martyr, a saint, is always made by the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to bring them back to His ways."
Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com
$19.99
Wood Wall Crosses
Hand Crafted in America
by Thomas the CrossMaker
