Amelia Barr Quotes

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

In any adversity gold can find friends.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.

It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Let me tell thee time is a very precious gift of God so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.

Injustice is a sixth sense and rouses all the others.

We hear voices in solitude we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.

Friends Make Life Bearable But I have certainty enough For I am sure of you.

The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them.