Occupation: Author Birth: March 21, 1905 Death: February 22, 1978
Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. ….
The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature..
Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable..
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away..
Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men cha….
Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business..
Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody..
God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the ….
The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession..
It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen..
A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish..
These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?.
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart..
In spring when maple buds are red, We turn the clock an hour ahead; Which means, each April that arrives, We lose an hour out of our lives. Who ….
Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the ….
One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. But it has its dangers. After a while the private heart begins to harden. We fling letters in….
Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain.….
Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the ca….
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People….
The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated an….