William McFee Quotes

“The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.”

“If fate means you to lose give him a good fight anyhow.”

“Fear born of that stern matron Responsibility.”

“The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.”

“One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.”

“The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.”

“People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.”

“Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.”

“That is my rule of life. If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. Do you remember Henley's magnificent lines? 'Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.' ? That is my gospel. What do you think of it?”

“I have wrote my name in hell,” Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern.”