To die will be an awfully big adventure.

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

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 am not young enough to know everything.

Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.

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.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

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.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

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.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

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.

We are all of us failures - at least, the best of us are.

Those who aim low usually hit their targets.

Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.

Life is a cup of tea the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on your way to being a remarkable man.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

Music should always be an adventure.

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.