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Johan Huizinga Quotes

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: dutch
Birth: December 7, 1872 - February 1, 1945

Topics

Life Influence Giving Luxury Easy

Fat jokes aren't relevant, but they're hilarious when you find them.

Fat You Find Jokes Relevant Them

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

John Sherman Cooper

Care Conspiracy Last Century Just

My family went to the Hamptons, so I understand what happens when a slice of perfect utopia gets overdeveloped, when one way of living is replaced by another.

Family Perfect Living Understand Way

What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.

Family Love Future Faith Today Us

Never, ever cheat, especially yourself, even if you are absolutely, positively sure that you can get away with it.

Yourself You Never Cheat Get Sure

Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It's a fabulous smell.

Good Day Cooking Kitchen One Day Up

For me, the way to approach a subject such as Vietnam is through storytelling.

Me Way Storytelling Through Vietnam

Is it not typical that we have a Tory Government that wants, just like its pals in the Labour Party, constantly to talk down Scotland's prospects?

Nicola Sturgeon

Government Down Party Talk Just

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.

Maria Montessori

Passion Science Teacher Moment Child

Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.

Funny Good Doing Hard Scary Market

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Poetry Always Against Sense Even

A lot of romantic comedies are just light romantic dramas, or the comedy comes off second-best.

Light Romantic Comedy Off Just Lot

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