Dorothy Canfield Quotes
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History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
What is life, but one long risk?
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The minute your group gets so big you don't know anybody in it and they don't know you, there's hell to pay.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music ...
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
That room was full to the brim of something beautiful,...Its name was Happiness.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
There's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I declare! Sometimes it seems to me that every time a new piece of machinery comes into the door some of our wits fly out the window!
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Not a thing had happened the way she had planned, no, not a single thing! But it seemed to her she had never been so happy in her life.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher