James M. Barrie
James M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OMwas a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth9 May 1860
girl baby boys
Because you see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.
feet hiking trekking
Make your feet your friend.
target lows aim
Those who aim low usually hit their targets.
prepared dies
Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.
trying kinder
Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
mean smoking slavery
I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.
running balls cricket-funny
I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back
sleep home men
I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.
funny men ribs
You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.
kinder
Always be a littler kinder than necessary.
eye love-is blind-love
Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.
knows asks
We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.
men thinking he-man
I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.
men fishing trout
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.