Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
—George Borrow
Topics: Youth
There’s night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there’s likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
—George Borrow
Topics: Life and Living
I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow
Topics: Politicians, Politics
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
—George Borrow
Topics: Patriotism
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
—George Borrow
Topics: Smoking
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
—George Borrow
Topics: Literature, Books
If you must commit suicide… always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.
—George Borrow
Topics: Suicide
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief—which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
—George Borrow
Topics: Idleness
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