In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
- Gerald Brenan
Marriage, Wife, Provides, Husband
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
- Gerald Brenan
Bad, Them, Being, Appearing
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
- Gerald Brenan
More, Other, Importance, Intellectuals
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
- Gerald Brenan
Someone, Given, Talker, Miller
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
- Gerald Brenan
Ants, Butterflies, Very, Closer
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
- Gerald Brenan
Healthy, Living, Old, Creature
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
- Gerald Brenan
Opinions, Sense, Keeping, Views
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
- Gerald Brenan
Death, Middle, More, Middle Age
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
- Gerald Brenan
Avoid, Someone, Everyone, Bore
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
- Gerald Brenan
Believe, More, Get, Older
The cliche is dead poetry.
- Gerald Brenan
Poetry, Dead, Cliche
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
- Gerald Brenan
Love, Hands, Offensive, Arms
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
- Gerald Brenan
Love, Some, Means, Most Important Thing
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