About Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities,...
More quotations from Maurice Maeterlinck
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.
More quotations tagged with “moderation”
The middle of the road is where the white line is-and that's the worst place to drive.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
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The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense . . . was that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion demanded that they should burn none at all.