TuesdayMay 19, 2026
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.
As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
By the way, what a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be 'sorry' and admiration of each others play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.
Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than necessary.
Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.
Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from mans rib; she was made from his funny bone.
Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, 'Ill see you again.'
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
Ones religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.
For several days after my first book was published I carried it about in my pocket, and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all by himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. Its our only joke. Every woman knows that.
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
I can't sleep.
It has been said of the unseen army of the dead, on their everlasting march, that when they are passing a rural cricket ground, the Englishmen fall out of the ranks for a moment to lean over a gate and smile.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
Oh the gladness of her gladness when shes glad, And the sadness of her sadness when shes sad, But the gladness of her gladness And the sadness of her sadness Are as nothing, Charles, To the badness of her badness when shes bad.
The tragedy of the man who has found himself out.
Do you believe in fairies? ... If you believe, clap your hands!
We are all failures at least, the best of us are.
Failure is the path of least resistance.
Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
Them that has china plates themsels is the maist careful no to break the china plates of others.
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.
What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
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