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In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.
— Raymond Mortimer
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied.
— John Mortimer
This is how Mortimer Tate ended up killing the first three human beings he'd laid eyes on in nearly a decade.
— Victor Gischler
The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere
— John Mortimer
Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.
— Mortimer Collins
Even when you have been somewhat enlightened by what you have read, you are called upon to continue the serach for significance.
— Mortimer J. Adler
The possession of the truth is the highest goal of the human mind.
— Mortimer J. Adler
The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.
— John Mortimer
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
— John Mortimer
Philosophy is everybody's business.
— Mortimer Adler
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
— Mortimer Collins
One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.
— Mortimer Adler
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
— Mortimer Adler
There is always time for failure.
— John Mortimer
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
— Mortimer Adler
He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.
— Mortimer Zuckerman
Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.
— Mortimer Zuckerman
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
— Mortimer Adler
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.
— Mortimer Adler
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
— Mortimer Adler
Being influential is not the mark of a great book.
— Mortimer Adler
When I was fourteen I had the world at my feet but somebody didn't do their job properly and allowed me to sin.
— Penelope Mortimer
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
— Mortimer Adler
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
— Mortimer Adler
YOUNGER MORTIMER: Fear'd am I more than lov'd; - let me be fear'd,And, when I frown, make all the court look pale. — Christopher Marlowe
In short, we can only learn from our "betters".
— Mortimer J. Adler
Good books are over your head; they would not be good for you if they were not.
— Mortimer J. Adler
In judging a practical book, everything turns on the ends or goals.
— Mortimer J. Adler
It his mind, they reminded him of 'Tweedle Dee' and 'Tweedle Dum', with an extra emphasise placed on the 'Dum'!
— Adele Rose
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
— John Mortimer
Law practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad.
— Mortimer Zuckerman
The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.
— Mortimer J. Adler
You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.
— Emily Mortimer
Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups.
— Emily Mortimer
As Thomas Hobbes said, If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
— Mortimer Adler
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
— John Mortimer
All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Soapy Sam looked as though he had just sat down on a favourite armchair which had gone missing.
— John Mortimer
Love without conversation is impossible.
— Mortimer Adler
The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.
— Mortimer J. Adler
I don't think you ever feel a success really because everything could always be done better than you've done it ...
— John Mortimer
Great speed in reading is a dubious achievement; it is of value only if what you have to read is not worth reading.
— Mortimer J. Adler
The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.
— Mortimer Adler
Pope John's advisers were worried about the freedom to speak and to come and go to and from the council.
— Ian Mortimer
The first stage of elementary reading - reading readiness - corresponds to pre-school and kindergarten experiences.
— Mortimer J. Adler
The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.
— Mortimer Zuckerman
I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.
— John Mortimer
It is only when you try to refine the obvious, and give the distinctions greater precision, that you get into difficulties. For
— Mortimer J. Adler
What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.
— John Mortimer
It sounds crazy, but I promise you it's true; wearing red lipstick really can change the course of a night out
— Minnie Mortimer
I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.
— Emily Mortimer
Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.
— Mortimer Zuckerman
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
— Mortimer Adler
To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Any good argument can be put into a nutshell. There
— Mortimer J. Adler
Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence. — Mortimer Adler
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
— Mortimer J. Adler
It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.
— John Mortimer
I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.
— Emily Mortimer
Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Mickey Mouse was supposed to be called Mortimer, but Walt Disney's wife found it creepy
— Adam Anderson
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.
— Mortimer Adler
I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
— Emily Mortimer
I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.
— Emily Mortimer
To use a good book as a sedative is conspicuous waste.
— Mortimer J. Adler
I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.
— Emily Mortimer
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice
— Mortimer J. Adler
You must be able to say "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.
— Mortimer J. Adler
An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.
— Mortimer Adler
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
— Mortimer J. Adler
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
— John Mortimer
True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Rumpole, you must move with the times.""If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them. — John Mortimer
A book is a work of art. (Again,
— Mortimer J. Adler
Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
— Mortimer Adler
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
— Mortimer Adler
Success is good for the character.
— John Mortimer
If an author does not give reasons for his propositions, they can only be treated as expressions of personal opinion on his part.
— Mortimer J. Adler
My name is Mortimer Alexander and I am a licensed summoner.""Darn. I'd hoped you were the pizza delivery guy. — Jana Oliver
Now there is no other way of forming a habit of operation than by operating.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.
— Raymond Mortimer
The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one able to adapt himself to any situation.
— John Mortimer Smith
