Stella Benson Quotes
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.
There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.
The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.
The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.
The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.
Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.
always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.
Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.
Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.
The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.
Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.
Family jokes though rightly cursed by strangers are the bond that keeps most families alive.