Myrtle Reed Quotes
Top 81 wise famous quotes and sayings by Myrtle Reed
Myrtle Reed Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.
The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.
When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.
Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.
One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.
If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.
In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.
Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.
Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.
After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.
It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.
It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.
When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.
Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.
There isn't a new sorrow in the world
they're all old ones
but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.
they're all old ones
but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.
Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.
Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.
Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.
It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.
Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.
One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.
If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.
A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.