Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
The thousands of possible lives that used to spread out in front of me have snapped shut into one, and all I… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
We're a shifty, sliding population. ... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a place where… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
The thing to remember is that children are temporary. As soon as they develop a sense of humor and get to be good company,… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I was getting sick and tired of being lectured by dear friends with their little bottles of water and their regular visits to the… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures,… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
