"I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England."

-- Peter Shaffer

#Years Quotes #Land Quotes #America Quotes

“If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.”
“No one ever understood disaster until it came.”

Source : Josephine Herbst (1977). “Nothing is sacred”, Arno Pr
“If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.”
“Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all- save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.”

Source : Eunice Tietjens (1929). “Leaves in Windy Weather”
“Life is good and is always trying to do us a good turn if we will only allow it to do so.”
“From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.”
“I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.”
“The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.”

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