Myrtle Reed Quotes
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Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.
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When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.
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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.
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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.
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Marriage is the cold potato of love.
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The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.
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A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.
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It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.
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Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.
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Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.
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On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.
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Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
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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.
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I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit.
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Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.
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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.
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... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
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The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.
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The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
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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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There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.
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it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
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The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little creatures of the air and meadow were life incarnate, from sheer joy of living? Who among us has not come home, singing, when the streets were almost impassable with snow, or met a friend with a happy, smiling face, in the midst of a pouring rain?
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Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.
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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.
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I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.
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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.
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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.
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How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!
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Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.
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