The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.
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
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
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
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…
men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.
There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.
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
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.
The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.
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