Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.

Hector Hugh Munro's Popular Quotes

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

- Hector Hugh Munro

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is goin…

- Hector Hugh Munro

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

- Hector Hugh Munro

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

- Hector Hugh Munro

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

- Hector Hugh Munro

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

- Hector Hugh Munro

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

- Hector Hugh Munro

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

- Hector Hugh Munro