54 Quotes by Edgar A. Guest

I’d like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I’d like to be the help that you’ve been always glad to be; I’d like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit.

Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear.

So long as men shall be on earth, there will be tasks for them to do. Some way for them to show their worth. Each day shall bring its problems new. And men shall dream of mightier deeds than ever have been done before. There always shall be human needs for men to work and struggle for.

Oh, you’ll not be any poorer if you smile along your way. And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say. Don’t imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend. You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.

I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.

Spring’s greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.