A bird is joy incarnate.
A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.
Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.
At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.
Conceit is lovable and unconcealed; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.
Home is a place where we all do as we please- usually regardless of the others.
How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!
I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.
It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.
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.
Marriage is the cold potato of love.
Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
Revolution is obstructed evolution.
Silence always gives consent...
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.
The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar.
There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.
Those who have been made great have first suffered.
Three things I have longed to see... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
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.
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