Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Heart Quotes , Warrior Quotes

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Lions Quotes , Assuming Quotes

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Writing Quotes

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Virtue Quotes , Crime Quotes

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Reading Quotes , People Quotes

Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Running Quotes , Hate Quotes

Golf is a mental disorder.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Golf Quotes , Disorder Quotes

I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Sex Quotes , Children Quotes

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Hate Quotes , Anger Quotes

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Brain Quotes , Ordinary Quotes

Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Men Quotes , Brave Quotes

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Dull Quotes , Judgment Quotes

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Clothes Quotes

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Strong Quotes , Statistics Quotes

exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Problem Quotes

It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart- kiss me, dear, just once before I lose my dream forever." -Jane-

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Dream Quotes , Heart Quotes

I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Believe Quotes , Hero Quotes

I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Party Quotes , Hands Quotes