Tales of Mother Goose, 1727, "Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper"
“Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy tale.”
Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
From article "In Defense of Curiosity" appearing in The Saturday Evening Post 208 (August 24, 1935); 8-9, 64-66. As cited in What I Hope to Leave Behind, The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt Edited by Alida M. Black, p 20.
As quoted in Todays Health (October 1966)
Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 7
“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.”
As quoted in Forbes Vol. 78 (1956), and in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 275
Context: Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
“real action and true helpfulness are perhaps the ultimate charm.”
Attributed in Forbes Vol 38 Iss. 2 (1936) p. 18, and in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 275
“I thought love was only true in fairy tales
Meant for someone else but not for me …”
I'm a Believer, first performed by The Monkees in 1966
Song lyrics, Just for You (1967)
