Top 29 Bosher Quotes
#1. Major-General Sir Wilfred Bosher came to distribute the prizes at that school', proceeded Gussie in a dull, toneless voice.'He dropped a book. He stooped to pick it up. And, as he stooped, his trousers split up the back'.
'How we roared!
P.G. Wodehouse
#2. Death is dreadfully personal, terribly important to oneself, and so unimportant to the rest of the world.
Kate Langley Bosher
#4. It isn't bad judgment to make a man believe he is something. He is by nature inclined to it, and a little encouragement is good for most people.
Kate Langley Bosher
#5. I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.
Sandra Cisneros
#6. I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my children about one, and let them have some peace.
Kate Langley Bosher
#7. We have to wear clothes, a requirement of custom, but more time, temper, character, and peace of mind, not to mention money, have been sacrificed to them than to any other altar on this green earth, and for what?
Kate Langley Bosher
#9. When there's love enough you can stand anything. When there isn't, you can stand nothing. Living together every day you find out a lot you didn't know, and love can't keep still. It's got to grow or die.
Kate Langley Bosher
#11. Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.
Joseph Conrad
#12. As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.
Kate Langley Bosher
#13. I learned there that the key was first to prioritize all the individual stressors and then act. I break it all down into the little things I can manage. The stressors that I can't affect, I don't worry about. The ones I can affect, I simply deal with one at a time.
Mark Owen
#14. What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!
Kate Langley Bosher
#15. As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return.
Kate Langley Bosher
#17. The call to adventure is the point in a person's life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.
Joseph Campbell
#19. I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer my books to those who like the things of childhood; the challenges, intrigue, joy and fun.
Graeme Base
#20. The place you're in is pretty near what you're fitted to fill. Otherwise you'd get out and fill another.
Kate Langley Bosher
#22. I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
George Gissing
#23. The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.
William Wordsworth
#25. Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward.
Jacques Lusseyran
#27. Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.
Kate Langley Bosher
#29. A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.
Kate Langley Bosher
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