Stranger Quotes - Page 36

• Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Needs, World

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.39, Schocken

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• One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Feelings, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2044, Delphi Classics

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• All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

  Homer

  Giving, Zeus, Beggar

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• Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Justice, Impartiality

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.231, 1st World Publishing

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• It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.

  Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

  Girl, Country, Morning

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• Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Firsts, Planets

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Husband, Wife, Important

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

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• How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.197, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Never floss a stranger.

  Joan Rivers

  Advice

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• In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

  John Thorn

  Sports, Pride, Community

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• My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . . What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. It brings men together in crowds and mobs in bar-rooms and elsewhere, but it does not deserve the name of virtue.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Lying, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Journal, ed. by Bradford Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

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• Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

  Mark Twain

  Blood, Intimate, Choke

  Mark Twain (2004). “Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race”, p.27, Univ of California Press

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• The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Mean, Two, Greek

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• To be a stranger in a strange land:
  Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before,
  There where my brother far away is ascending,
  The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.

  Wang Wei

  Travel, Brother, Men

  "Thinking of My Brother in Shantung on the Ninth Day of the Ninth Moon". "The White Pony: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry", book edited by Robert Payne, 2014.

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• A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

  Robert Breault

  Party, Holiday, Cocktails

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• There are many ways to seek wisdom. There is travel, there are masters, there is service. There is staring into the eyes of children and elders and lovers and strangers. There is sitting silently in one spot and there is being swept along in life's turbulent current. Life itself will grant you wisdom in ways you may neither understand nor choose. It is up to you to be open to all these sources of wisdom and to embrace them with your whole heart.

  Kent Nerburn

  Wisdom, Children, Eye

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• That girl had a great way of making friends, and strangers, and anyone else who was around.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Girl, Sex

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• This nation is so friendly that the leading cause of injury is getting passionately embraced by strangers.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.141, Ballantine Books

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• It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance.

  Kevin Myers

  Funny, Humorous, Waiting

  "The Country the World Forgot - Again". www.telegraph.co.uk. April 21, 2002.

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• We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  God, Humble, House

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• But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
  
  Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows;
  
  And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
  
  Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
  
  Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
  
  "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.

  Philip Sidney

  Children, Writing, Heart

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 1

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• Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.

  Christopher McDougall

  Ideas, Saving, Behavior

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• How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

  Bernard Malamud

  Believe, Believe In God, Ifs

  Bernard Malamud (1973). “Rembrandt's Hat”, p.8, Macmillan

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• What started as a whisper
  Slowly turned into a scream
  Searching for an answer
  Where the question is unseen
  I don't know where you came from
  And I don't know where you've gone
  Old friends become old strangers
  Between the darkness and the dawn

  Ben Harper

  Old Friends, Darkness, Dawn

  Song: Amen Omen, Album: Diamonds on the Inside, 2003

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• The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

  Bob Seger

  Friendship, Home, Past

  Song: Against The Wind, Album: Against the Wind, 1980

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