Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.
The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. - Fanny Fern
The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
- Fanny Fern
I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it. - Fanny Fern
I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.
A little oil makes machinery work easy. - Fanny Fern
A little oil makes machinery work easy.
The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman. - Fanny Fern
The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.
Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses w… - Fanny Fern
Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses w…
There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe. - Fanny Fern
There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.
Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice. - Fanny Fern
Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living. - Fanny Fern
O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.
Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma. - Fanny Fern
Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.
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