Myrtle Reed Quotes - Page 4

Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam.

... the song of the world is all of love.

Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

the world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!

Gossip is the social mosquito.

The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.

For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.

Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.

As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

marriage is a great strain upon love.

[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.

Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!

A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.

Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.

I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

A bird is joy incarnate.