You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
¶ "Courage," Rectorial Address, St Andrews (1922)
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Sir James Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
¶ (Attributed)
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.
¶ Peter Pan, "To the Five -- A Dedication" (1930)
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
¶ Peter Pan, Act III, final sentence (1930)
Life is a long lesson in humility.
¶ The Little Minister (1891)
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.
¶ The Little Minister, I.1 (1891)
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
¶ The Little White Bird (1902)
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.
¶ The Twelve-Pound Look (1910)
It's not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
¶ Rectorial address, St. Andrew’s University, Scotland (3 May 1922)
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
¶ Rectorial address, St. Andrew’s University, Scotland (3 May 1922)
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