The City of Beautiful Nonsense Quotes

“You've got to see Venice," he began. "You've got to see a city of slender towers and white domes, sleeping in the water like a mass of water lilies. You've got to see dark waterways, mysterious threads of shadow, binding all these flowers of stone together.”
― E. Temple Thurston, The City of Beautiful Nonsense

“One is so much wiser when one is young--one is so much younger when one is old.”
― E. Temple Thurston, The City of Beautiful Nonsense

“There comes a time when a mother loves her son, because he is a man just as the man she has loved.”
― E. Temple Thurston, The City of Beautiful Nonsense

“For just as the virtue of wealth will bring out the evil of avarice, so will the evil of poverty bring out the virtue of self-respect. In this world, there is as much good that comes out of evil as ever stands by itself alone. This, in fact, is the need of evil, that out of it may lift the good.”
― Ernest Temple Thurston, The City of Beautiful Nonsense