36 Quotes by William McFee

That is my rule of life. If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. Do you remember Henley's magnificent lines? 'Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.' ? That is my gospel. What do you think of it?

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!