Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park {otherwise known as P.D. James}, was born August 3rd, 1920 in Oxford, England. In honor of her big day, a few words…

“God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.”

“What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.”

“In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.”

“It was not… that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would mer

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ely iron them out with a firm hand and neatly hem them down.”

“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.”

“Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.”

“What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.”

“We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.”

“I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.”

“Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.”

“It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.”

'Tis the birthday of George Bernard Shaw. That's right, the Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature {1925}, was born July 26, 1856. In honor of his big day, a few of his words:

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”

“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”

“Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”

“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”

“A little l

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earning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.”

“A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.”

“A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.”

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

“A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.”

“A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.”

“All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.”

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

“He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”

“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”

“Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.”

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”

“Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.”

The author of famed The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, was born June 29, 1900 in Lyon, France. As is our custom, a few words from the man of the hour …

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”

“The one thing that matters is the effort.”

“To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.”

“A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten'.”

“'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'”

“Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”

“The machine does not i

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solate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.”

“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart…”

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is esential is invisible to the eye.”

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”

“Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.”

“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.”

“The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.”