Mary Stuart or Mary Stewart may refer to:
Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.
Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you.
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.
It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all.
the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were some old relic of pagan superstition, the fear of risking the jealousy and anger of the gods, that made such people afraid of even small happinesses. Or perhaps it was only that tragedy is more self-important than laughter.
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.
I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.
. . . the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave. . . . Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient. . . you would have sworn. . . as the white horses of the wave crests are to pull of the moon.
Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark
Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.
Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.
The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.
Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.
Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.