Nellie L. McClung Quotes - Page 2

it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.

It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.

Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

Always in Alberta there is a fresh wind blowing.

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.

the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.

The good is the greatest rival of the best.

Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.

Every season of life has its compensations.

The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.

thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.

In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring.

The middle years of life come on like thunder.

The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.