Quotes of James Branch Cabell - somelinesforyou

“ There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ I am content. While my shrewd fellows rode about the world to seek and to attain power and wisdom, I have elected, as and unpractical realist, to follow after beauty. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle? ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ I am content. While my shrewd fellows rode about the world to seek and to attain power and wisdom, I have elected, as and unpractical realist, to follow after beauty. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. ”

- James Branch Cabell
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