Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies; for when you lose an abstract term, you are apt to lose the thing it stands for.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould's Popular Quotes

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.

- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic t…

- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

- Katharine Fullerton Gerould