Martin Maxfield Quotes & Sayings

Just as we all like love tales because there is an instinct of sex, we all like astonishing tales because they touch the nerve of the ancient instinct of astonishment. This is proved by the fact that when we are very young children we do not need fairy tales: we only need tales. Mere life is interesting enough. A child of seven is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door and saw a dragon. But a child of three is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door. Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales -- because they find them romantic. In fact, a baby is about the only person, I should think, to whom a modern realistic novel could be read without boring him. — G.K. Chesterton

A man can achieve his own happiness only by pursuing the happiness of others, because it is only by forgetting about his own happiness that he can become happy. — Lao-Tzu

That love can make the difference between life and death. — Paul Pilkington

There's this thing you're supposed to be part of in London. But what is it? That's the million-dollar question. Everyone's there because they're searching, aspiring. A very small percentage is actually living the dream. Ill, tired, unhappy, the rent is fucking loads, what is it you're getting? The idea of it, or something. — Craig Taylor

Jest becuz I'm nine, don't mean I'm a stupid little kid. — Moira Young

Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within. — Kabir

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO. — Charlie Munger

Heroes aren't heroes because they worship the light, but because they know the darkness all to well to stand down and live with it. — Ninya Tippett

You can't be pro-labor and anti-business. — Bobby Schilling

I think 40 is a good age to run a country. But I've always been fast. — Henrique Capriles Radonski

Sometimes living takes more courage than dying. — Jane Yolen

I think there [are] great economies that can be made starting with a round of base closings, ... I want the president to veto these pork-barrel spending bills which have grown to incredible obscene levels. I believe there are a number of weapons systems that have to be eliminated. — John McCain

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. — Arnold Palmer