Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes

» Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

» Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

» A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.

» One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

» If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

» Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

» A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

» She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!

» Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

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