Quote Tag

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

If your world doesn’t allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

Only when a man’s life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

American Idol has taken over my whole life.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.