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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
Hard words will break no bones:
But more than bones are broken
By the inescapable stones
Of fond words left unspoken. — Jan Struther
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
[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
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
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
[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
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
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
To achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.
— 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