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To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know. — Jan Struther

To improve is to change. — Winston Churchill

To compare other things with God, is to debase Deity; as if you should compare the shining of a glow-worm with the sun. 3. — Thomas Watson

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion. — Jan Struther

[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past. — Jan Struther

How much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries. — Jan Struther

Swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail. — Jan Struther

Hard words will break no bones:
But more than bones are broken
By the inescapable stones
Of fond words left unspoken. — Jan Struther

Humans are so wonderful.
[Alucard Hellsing] — Kohta Hirano

No one has actually gone further than The Sex Pistols, I don't think, in that cultural music arena. They still challenge people. — Julien Temple

And I am a mockery, who was God before. — Jan Struther

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure. — Tom Waits

Left wing ... Right wing ... it's so limited; why doesn't it ever occur to any of them that what one is really longing for is the wishbone? — Jan Struther

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon
except when there are going to be fireworks; — Jan Struther

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare. — Jan Struther

People who are afraid of the truth never find it. — Amy Harmon

Punctuality is the thief of adventure ... — Jan Struther

Clem Miniver: She was a good cook, as good cooks go. And as good cooks go, she went. — Jan Struther

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable. — Jan Struther

The only way to test a hypothesis is to look for all the information that disagrees with it. — Karl Popper

It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer. — Henny Youngman

One is what one remembers: no more, no less. — Jan Struther

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect. — Jan Struther

Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop. — Jan Struther

O love's a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting — Jan Struther

It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person. — Jan Struther

You can win the world, she said, if you're willing to lose your soul. — Max Gladstone

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still. — Jan Struther

To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal — Jan Struther

A huge mistake that many of us make is to work hard our entire life for money and not require money to work for us in return. — Daniel Willey

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his. — John Stott

The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself. — Jan Struther

I don't want anything that I buy to have done any harm to anyone or anything. — Kevin McCloud

To achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life. — Jan Struther

Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion. — Jan Struther

[T]he mechanics of life should never be allowed to interfere with living. — Jan Struther

If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical. — Seth MacFarlane

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin. — Jan Struther