Fanny Fern Quotes - Page 2

Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.

Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.

You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.

Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.

One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.

adversity is so rough a teacher!

Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!

Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.

Why don't men ... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.

Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.

Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?

they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.

How strong sometimes is weakness!

Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.

I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.

It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.