Quotes from William McFee

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

People don't ever seem to relate that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

If fate means you to lose give him a good fight anyhow.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.

Fear born of that stern matron Responsibility.