"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Retirement Quotes #Home Quotes #Feet Quotes

“There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time.”

Source : Helen Hodgman (1990). “Blue Skies ; &, Jack and Jill”, Penguin Group USA
“Keep God first. If you do that, if you just focus on God and keeping Him first, then everything else will just take care of itself. Do everything for Him.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.”
“Every gift of God is to be enjoyed as from God and not like a God.”
“...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.”

Source : Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Divisadero”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.”
“It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.”

Source : "The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb" by Dennis Wainstock, (p. 107), 1996.

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