Quotes by Santayana, George

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live >>

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and >>

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The d >>

Quotations about Proverbs

A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it. >>

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but >>

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philoso >>

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Santayana, George