Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLLearn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULL[On religion:] Wasn’t it invented by man for a kind of solace? It’s as though he had said,
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLIf a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he’s the hell of a diplomat.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLA country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLYou must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes … without stirring it up from the bottom. That’s where the bitter dregs are!
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLWhen the desire ain’t on me I don’t need help. When it is on me I don’t want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn’t do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody’s.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLThere is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLThe idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLThere is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLDefeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLHave you ever heard apple wood talking? It’s the most loquacious of all. You really can’t get a word in edgeways.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLSpring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLI have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLDogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLSunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLI think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can’t get away from them.
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