The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal.
Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned. - Margaret Ayer Barnes
Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.
- Margaret Ayer Barnes
Resisted temptations become lost opportunities. - Margaret Ayer Barnes
Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.
I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better… - Margaret Ayer Barnes
I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better…
The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roisterin… - Margaret Ayer Barnes
The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roisterin…
It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble. - Margaret Ayer Barnes
It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble.
Character is the best security. - Margaret Ayer Barnes
Character is the best security.
All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from W… - Margaret Ayer Barnes
All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from W…
Riches make cowards of us. - Margaret Ayer Barnes
Riches make cowards of us.
There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person. - Margaret Ayer Barnes
There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.
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