Quotes by : Florida Scott-Maxwell

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?

You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have....

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure....

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested....

It is as though God said, "You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are....

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

This is what creation is. The might and marvel of forever creating out of opposition.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene but my....

I admire a contented mind. I revere enjoyment of the simple things. I can imagine that contentment has....