Quotes by Jacques Martin Barzun
| If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real. |
| In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation. |
| Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. |
| Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. |
| The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. |
| Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. |
