Barbara Holland - Life Quotes

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Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more different from life. For one thing sports, unlike life, are played according to rules. Indeed, the rules are the sport: life may behave bizarrely and still be life, but if the runner circles the bases clockwise it's no longer baseball.

Barbara Holland

Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.

Barbara Holland

A woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

Barbara Holland

However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some name he goes by in a place you never heard of.

Barbara Holland

Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.

Barbara Holland