Ed Reed Quotes

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

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

There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

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

Revolution is obstructed evolution.

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

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

Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.

Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

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.

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

when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A bird is joy incarnate.

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

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

... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

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

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

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.

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

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

Marriage is the cold potato of love.

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.

[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.

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

Those who have been made great have first suffered.