Mary Chase Inspirational Quotes (8)

It's our dreams that keep us going, that seperate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, In this world, Elwood, you must be - she always called me Elwood - In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.

Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it.

The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.