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Van Loon Quotes & Sayings

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Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl. — Julie Anne Peters

I think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross. — Natalie Cole

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Love the people who treat you right pray or the people who don't — Karen Salmansohn

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. — Frank Wedekind

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. — Jonathan Swift

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality. — Frederick Lenz

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Love is giving someone the ability to hurt you but TRUSTING them not to — Levett & Pia Washington

History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Vhalla gave the tiniest of smiles when her eyes fell on Fritz, and he risked breaking his wrist with his frantic, not so subtle waving. — Elise Kova

While I was waiting to die, I still had the Journal of Nineteenth-Century Studies. — Michel Houellebecq

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy. — Cyril Connolly

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think. — Sherry Argov

A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature. — Annie Jump Cannon

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Life means progress, and progress means suffering. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you. — Mel Brooks