Elisabeth Marbury Quotes

#1. There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry of the image breaker. To praise the devil is second nature. To praise God is an education.

Elisabeth Marbury

#2. The search of the Holy Grail or the voyage towards a new continent never enlisted so much energy and so much faith as does this pursuit of youth by old age. It is a race not of the fleet but of the most credulous.

Elisabeth Marbury

#3. Storehouses filled with merchandise will prove a better guarantee than arsenals bulging with ammunition.

Elisabeth Marbury

#4. Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings.

Elisabeth Marbury

#5. No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.

Elisabeth Marbury

#6. I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.

Elisabeth Marbury

#7. It is high time that the American people should remember a few home truths, and that we should refuse to become partners with a militarism which is still stalking unchecked under the pretense of national needs and of international justice.

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#8. The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.

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#9. No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

Elisabeth Marbury

#10. Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed.

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#11. Years in themselves mean nothing. How we live them means everything.

Elisabeth Marbury