Barbara Holland

Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war…

— Barbara Holland

Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and…

— Barbara Holland

In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.

— Barbara Holland

A catless writer is almost inconceivable.

— Barbara Holland

We're a shifty, sliding population. ... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a…

— Barbara Holland

Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.

— Barbara Holland

Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost…

— Barbara Holland

War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning,…

— Barbara Holland

Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and…

— Barbara Holland

The thing to remember is that children are temporary. As soon as they develop a sense of humor and get to be…

— Barbara Holland

I was getting sick and tired of being lectured by dear friends with their little bottles of water and their regular visits…

— Barbara Holland

If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling,…

— Barbara Holland

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition claims that a moderate beer drinker - whatever that means - swallows 11 percent of his…

— Barbara Holland

“Drink, the social glue of the human race. Probably in the beginning we could explain ourselves to our close family members with…

— Barbara Holland

Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.

— Barbara Holland

True ownership of anything requires time.

— Barbara Holland

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.

— Barbara Holland

My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were…

— Barbara Holland

Exercise, to qualify at all, must be lonely, painfu, humorless, and boring.

— Barbara Holland

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

— Barbara Holland

Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more…

— Barbara Holland

We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it;…

— Barbara Holland

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of…

— Barbara Holland

However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some…

— Barbara Holland

In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement,…

— Barbara Holland