Margaret Deland Quotes - Page 2

If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.

You can't have genius without patience.

conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

Home is the best place to be sick in.

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.

The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.