Barbara Holland Quotes

United States, Author
April 5, 1933 – September, 7, 2010.

Barbara Murray Holland (April 5, 1933 – September 7, 2010) was an American author who wrote in defense of such modern-day vices as cursing, drinking, eating fatty food and smoking cigarettes, as well as a memoir of her time spent growing up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.

The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.

Barbara Holland
- Feel
- Company
- Ego
Very few people have no opinions about cats.

Barbara Holland
- People
- Opinions
- Cats

The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.

Barbara Holland
By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.

Barbara Holland
- Dog
- Teaching
- Animals
The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

Barbara Holland
- People
- Poetry
- Read
A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.

Barbara Holland
- Creatures
- Souls
- Spirits
Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

Barbara Holland
- Teeth
- Cats
- Meaningless
My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job.

Barbara Holland
- Angry
- Afraid
- Fathers

True ownership of anything requires time.

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

Barbara Holland
- Life
- Sports
- Unfair