36 Quotes by William McFee

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one’s shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.

Responsibility’s like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

People don’t ever seem to realize that doing what’s right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.

There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man’s interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.

The artist isn’t particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.

Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.