One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Jane Austen

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington

It's not the having, it's the getting.
Elizabeth Taylor

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
George Eliot

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. Mencken

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
Golda Meir

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
J. D. Salinger

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. Salinger

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
Andrew Jackson

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
Andrew Jackson

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Charles Darwin

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Woodrow Wilson

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
Michael Jackson

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James Madison