...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or yo…

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old,…

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, t…

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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 …

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of …

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher