Quote by Zelda Fitzgerald
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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Oh, the secret life of man and woman –dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. – Nikita Khrushchev

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. – John Haggai

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The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. – Charles Swindoll

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