Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.
I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders an… - Jean Webster
I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders an…
- Jean Webster
Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving. - Jean Webster
Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.
The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way. - Jean Webster
The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.
It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, … - Jean Webster
It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, …
I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying… - Jean Webster
I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying…
The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable. - Jean Webster
The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.
It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them. - Jean Webster
It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.
I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains. - Jean Webster
I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.
Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late … - Jean Webster
Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late …
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