41 Quotes by Barbara Holland

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

True ownership of anything requires time...

Our Revolution was born and raised in taverns.

Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.

I was getting sick and tired of being lectured by dear friends with their little bottles of water and their regular visits to the gym. All of a sudden, we’ve got this voluntary prohibition that has to do with health and fitness. I’m not really in favor of health and fitness.

The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.

Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.

Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.

Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn’t come this year, but dogwoods have faith.