Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.


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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
ARNOLD GLASGOW
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the etern...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
ARNOLD PALMER
In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
ARNOLD GLASGOW
The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.
ARNOLD GLASGOW
The future is the past returning through another gate.
ARNOLD GLASGOW
My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun...
THOMAS ARNOLD
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tone the spirit just ...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden a...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude.
ARNOLD GLASGOW
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to mak...
THOMAS ARNOLD
With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
'Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly sti...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLD
What we must look for here is, firstly, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduc...
THOMAS ARNOLD
Make your life a mission-not an intermission.
ARNOLD GLASGOW
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God
EBERHARD ARNOLD
You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked ...
EBERHARD ARNOLD
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, ...
THOMAS ARNOLD
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
If we become completely whole-hearted we will have love for all people and will seek in each person ...
EBERHARD ARNOLD
You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
ARNOLD BAX
Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married -- the other half because they're no...
ARNOLD GLASGOW
The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
EBERHARD ARNOLD
The living need charity more than the dead.
GEORGE ARNOLD
I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say onl...
ARNOLD EDINBOROUGH
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life ...
THOMAS ARNOLD
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...
THOMAS ARNOLD