Myrtle Reed Quotes - Page 2

each separate flower has a magic all its own.

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.

There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it.

One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

Marriage is the cold potato of love.

A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.

Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

Pedestals are always lonely.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

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.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

Those who have been made great have first suffered.

It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

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.

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.