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A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.


Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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BAILEY CHASE I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group wi...
BAILEY CHASE Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
BAILEY CHASE You never find yourself until you face the truth
PEARL BAILEY Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left.

Which ever side you think i...
JONATHAN BAILEY What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
PEARL BAILEY The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
PEARL BAILEY People see God every day, they just don't recognize Him.
PEARL BAILEY We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We shou...
DAVID BAILEY When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they...
BERNARD BAILEY There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have t...
PEARL BAILEY It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter b...
DAVID BAILEY There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat...
PEARL BAILEY All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was pass? at the time.
DAVID BAILEY A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
PEARL BAILEY To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
PEARL BAILEY There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour ...
PEARL BAILEY You cannot belong to anyone else until you belong to yourself.
PEARL BAILEY They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
JOSIAH BAILEY I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I lik...
DAVID BAILEY I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichev...
PEARL BAILEY Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
PEARL BAILEY Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no lo...
PEARL BAILEY The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
PEARL BAILEY What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -Pearl Bailey.
PEARL BAILEY I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I li...
DAVID BAILEY Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
GAMALIEL BAILEY A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and lov...
PEARL BAILEY