Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight. — William McFee Ends Copy Share Image
Woman dwell always in the palace of unpalatable truth and never by any chance is there a magic talisman to save them… — William McFee Chance Copy Share Image
There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest… — William McFee Death Copy Share Image
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune. — William McFee Failure Copy Share Image
“People don't seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.” — William McFee Inspirational Copy Share Image
An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul? — William McFee Collars Copy Share Image
A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch… — William McFee Blow Copy Share Image
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from… — William McFee Adventure Copy Share Image
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. — William McFee Misfortune Copy Share Image
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see yow they are getting on. — William McFee Grows Copy Share Image
The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely,… — William McFee Art Copy Share Image
Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity,… — William McFee Deserted Copy Share Image
The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship? — William McFee Courage Copy Share Image
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on. — William McFee Ideas Copy Share Image
The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it,… — William McFee Art Copy Share Image
Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion! — William McFee Every moment Copy Share Image
There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea. — William McFee Pleasure Copy Share Image
One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff. — William McFee Collateral Copy Share Image
The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been… — William McFee Equations Copy Share Image
The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true… — William McFee Advise Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start. — William McFee Birth Copy Share Image
