Punctuality is the thief of adventure. Jan Struther More Quotes by Jan Struther More Quotes From Jan Struther It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person. Jan Struther right-person important persons Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion. Jan Struther oblivion mood weapons There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before.... The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness. Jan Struther stars air lakes To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal Jan Struther immortal leisure one-day O love's a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting Jan Struther simple-words simple swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail. Jan Struther swans fans reading I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London. Jan Struther kitchen black cat The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself. Jan Struther democracy citizens ordinary Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens, women make amends by housekeeping, childbirth, and writing all the letters for both of them. Jan Struther suffering writing men And I am a mockery, who was God before. Jan Struther mockery To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know. Jan Struther fun country travel A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin. Jan Struther couple successful trying Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop. Jan Struther party fun baby how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries. Jan Struther discovery fun children It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch. Jan Struther eye home children
