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Top 80 Josiah Bancroft Quotes (2024 Update)

Josiah Bancroft Quote: “Sometimes to enjoy a scene fully, we must first retreat a little way.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “Senlin did not believe in that sort of love: sudden and selfish and insatiable. Love, as the poets so often painted it, was just bald lust wearing a pompous wig. He believed true love was more like an education: it was deep and subtle and never complete.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “The essential lesson of the zoetrope is this: movement, indeed all progress, even the passage of time, is an illusion. Life is the repetition of stillness.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “The mob does two things well: nothing and revolution. – I Sip a Cup of Wind by Jumet.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “I’m pretty sure that’s what hope is. Stubbornness. Refusing to go down.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “We are, each of us, a multitude. I am not the man I was this morning, nor the man of yesterday. I am a throng of myself queued through time. We are, gentle reader, each a crowd within a crowd.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “I suppose books are like a surgeon’s scalpel. The same blade that can kill when wielded by a fool can save lives in the right hands.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “Suits me. I’d rather be a nothing at the center of everything than a puffed-up somebody at the edge of it all.” She said this in her usual unguarded way. And without meaning to, she had described him exactly: a puffed-up somebody at the edge of it all.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “A man who is not suspicious of a philosophy that appeals to his nature is like the bull comforted by the rutted path that leads to the slaughterhouse. – I Sip a Cup of Wind by Jumet.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “I love a good scandal. There’s nothing more comforting than tut-tutting the public sins of another from the privacy of your own squalor.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “Don’t saw off your arm to feed a dog. You only have two arms, and the world is full of dogs.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “The only medicine for gout is moderation; the only cure for excess is charity.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “The rich “learn lessons.” The poor commit crimes. “Mistakes” are generally considered a mark of the middle class.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “People only read what they already believe to be true, and if they encounter something that seems to disagree with their beliefs, they bend it into agreement, and if it cannot be bent, then they call it a conspiracy and cast it away!”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “I am the riddle in the mouth of the Sphinx. I am the slaver that chews the living chain. I am the farmer of dead seeds, the filler of holes. Who am I?” Senlin answered at a whisper: “Death.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “We cannot raise a man up by lowering ourselves, no more than we can save a sunken ship by draining away the sea.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “Love, as the poets so often painted it, was just bald lust wearing a pompous wig. He believed true love was more like an education: it was deep and subtle and never complete.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “I’m suspicious of people who are certain.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “The human race will go marching into that conclusive dark, singing our ballads and telling our stories and embellishing our walls with loafing nudes because that is who we really are: creatures who’ve only begun to believe in the scarce beauty of ourselves, and just in time for the point to be moot.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “With subjugation comes certainty. Liberty is full of gambles.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “It is easier to accept who you’ve become than to recollect who you were.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “An earnest failure is superior to immaculate potential.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “We all have weaknesses. Not everyone has strengths.” “I.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “If the law is malleable, Mr. Senlin, if it bends and conforms to man, then man will become resolute in his flaws. The law exists to give shape to man’s ideals. When you think about it, doesn’t mercy serve the wicked at the expense of the law?”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “The mob does two things well: nothing and revolution.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “Sometimes, it was difficult to tell the difference between independence and imprisonment. The two could look an awful lot alike.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “I am upset because we have pooled our human genius into the building of an elaborate Tower and have filled it up with the same tyrants that have plagued our race since we crawled from the sea. Why does our innovation never extend to our conscience?”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “The handkerchief is the universal utensil of the seasoned traveler. It can be a sanitizing device, a seat cover, a dust mask, a garrote, a bandage, a gag, or a white flag. One may feel well-prepared with nothing but a pocket square.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “For a man choked full of esoteric wisdom, he had very little idea what he was capable of. He knew himself but poorly.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “The rich “learn lessons.” The poor commit crimes. “Mistakes” are generally.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “The only event I’m certain to attend is my funeral, and I hope to arrive very, very late.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “Memory is not like a box of stationery – easy to browse, reorder, and read. No, memories accumulate like leaves upon the forest floor. They are irregular and fragile. They crumble and break upon inspection. They turn to soil the deeper you go.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “Senlin felt like an ambitious weed growing in the deep shade of old trees.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “Only people who go to bed early believe in happy endings. We night owls understand that happiness does not dwell in finales. It resides in anticipation, in revelry, and in worn-out welcomes. Endings are always sad.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “At the round table of color, orange sits supreme. Orange is sublime. Orange is ablaze. And seated across from Lady Orange, we have Sir Purple. I ask you, is any color more vulgar? The word alone emerges like something from a lavatory. Purple. Plopple. It’s all prunes, liver spots, and ink stains. If I ever utter a word of praise for that wretched hue, please snatch my pen away and gore me with it.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “The human race will march into the darkness singing songs and telling stories because that is who we are and what we do.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “If I ever get to the point where I can stand idly by while a child falls to his death, I don’t think I can claim to have priorities of any kind.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “The universe breathes in ragged breaths. The body dies. The fungus grows. The loam spreads. The tree roots. The forest burns. The cloud bursts. The flood drowns. The alluvium feeds the fields. In, out. In, out. There is no stasis, no stillness. The source of all misery lies in our insistence that tomorrow be like today. But if it were, if it ever were, it would spell the end of everything.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “You are late, Headmaster.” “Impossible. Headmasters cannot be late,” he said. “The sun must be running fast.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “Like it or not, we are pirates. Saying please and thank you doesn’t change that. There are no devils by degree, no gentlemen thieves. There’s just strong and weak, the willing and the dead.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “Never let a rigid itinerary discourage you from an unexpected adventure.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “Yes, I hear that people who suffer from brain damage are quite happy. That’s what I always wanted for you, Edith: for you to be happy, no matter how many blows to the head it takes.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “Iren looked the Captain and first mate up and down, taking in Edith’s split lip, the gory stains on her tattered scarf and the Captain’s shirt, the sling that pinned her mighty arm to her breast, the gash of blood on his forehead, the glowing dust that frosted them from hat to boot, and the strong smell of smoke wafting from their clothes. “How was the zoo?” she asked.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “Myth is the story of what we do not understand in ourselves.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “I’m counting on greed and egotism, forces that are as reliable as gravity.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “All I know is that, at the end of the day, dreams don’t matter, but neither does regret. We aren’t what we want or wish for. We are only what we do.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “She is imperfect, but absolutely peerless.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “But understanding nothing, or very little of the world, and having no desire to understand more than you already do, well, that invites entitlement. What was a privilege becomes a right. And that, I think, is dangerous.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “Inevitably, invariably, eventually you will discover you are unprepared to make an informed choice. When in doubt, say, Yes. Yes is the eternal passport. Yes is the everlasting coin.”
Josiah Bancroft Quote: “The wonderful thing about regrets is that it’s never too late to have them.”
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