Carolyn Wells Quotes

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Actions lie louder than words.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

The way to do some things is to do them.

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

A living gale is better than a dead calm.

Every dogma must have its day.

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

The wages of sin is alimony.

When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

Society's the mother of convention.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.