Myrtle Reed Quotes

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

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

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

After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

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

Revolution is obstructed evolution.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

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.

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.

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

when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.

Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.

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

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.