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Your Quotes for 9 May 2006 - James Matthew Barrie

Where to? "First star to the right and straight on till morning!" That was Peter Pan, standing on the hands of Big Ben with Wendy and her brother. The man who wrote it, Sir James Matthew Barrie, was born at Kirriemuir, Scotland on this day in 1860. After graduating from the University of Edinburg in 1882 he wrote for the Nottingham Journal for three years before he moved to London. There he thrived in an intense literary circle, his friends included H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, and P. G. Wodehouse, and wrote extensively for the stage.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
     - All from James Matthew Barrie, 1860 - 1937

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