Top 20 Lansdowne Quotes
#3. Only those who have been wanderers long desolate can know the power there was in the latter appeal [Christianity].
Lew Wallace
#5. Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
#8. Writing to someone is the only way to wait for him without hurting oneself.
Alessandro Baricco
#13. I am just like all the jerks and idiots you know. I am just a guy that watches sports all day.
Brian McKnight
#16. So, drenched and downing champagne, I danced a rather demented waltz-cum-jig with a young bride I'd never met before in a place I'd never been before at 4.30 in the morning. And you know the weirdest thing of all? It all seemed so perfectly natural.
Colin Irwin
#17. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
#18. Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools;
Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools:
Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell;
Not left us women, or not threatened hell.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne