It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.

ZELDA FITZGERALD

Courage Feeling Lose Power Right Weakness World

I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.

ZELDA FITZGERALD

Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.

ZELDA FITZGERALD

Borrow Future Life Work Worry

Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.

ZELDA FITZGERALD

Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.

ZELDA FITZGERALD

Comfortable Excitement Happiness World

The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.

ZELDA FITZGERALD

Earth Growth Life Purpose Right Soul

Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.

ZELDA FITZGERALD

Action Analyze Annoy Explanation

Death is the only real elegance.

ZELDA FITZGERALD

Death Elegant Reality

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

ZELDA FITZGERALD

Experience Teaching

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

ZELDA FITZGERALD

End Hang Loose Man

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

ZELDA FITZGERALD

Appearance Complex Dreams Finding Growth Infinite Learning Perfection Play Promise

It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

ZELDA FITZGERALD

Eat Habit Hold Live Sleep Terrible

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

ZELDA FITZGERALD

Endurance Low Quiet Share Time Woman

Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.

ZELDA FITZGERALD

Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.

ZELDA FITZGERALD

Crowd Friendship Need Youth

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

ZELDA FITZGERALD

Achievement Death Determination Direction Future Person Time