Ernest Bramah Quotes on Wisdom
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It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.
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The one-legged never stumble.
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Eat in the dark the bargain that you purchased in the dusk.
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'When an alluring woman comes in at the door,' warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, 'discretion may be found up the chimney'. It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: 'The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.'