(68 quotes found)
“The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mother's”
James Matthew Barrie
“The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which”
“If it's heaven for climate, it's hell for company”
“You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone”
“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.”
“I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
“The most gladsome thing in the world is that few of us fall very low; the saddest that, with such capabilities, we seldom rise high”
“Has it ever struck you that the trouts bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men”
“What is genius?- It is the power to be a boy again at will”
“Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others”
