The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
George William Curtis

While we read history we make history.
George William Curtis

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
George William Curtis

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
George William Curtis

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
George William Curtis

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
George William Curtis

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
George William Curtis