Gilbert Parker
Gilbert Parker
Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC, known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain J. Parker, R.A...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 November 1862
games joy buying
But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.
stars distance eye
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay waste the pasture; it comforteth when there are no medicines; it hath the relish of manna; and by it do men live in the desert.
may ends
That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.
men tomorrow
Tomorrow is no man's gift.
war cruelty gentle
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
memories stupid world
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
beautiful mean secret
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
winning law win-or-lose
Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
real trying life-is
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
mother children born
When a child is born the mother also is born again.
light goal forever
He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.
positive influence habit
There is no influence like the influence of habit.
love relationship stars
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
roots imagination
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.