Myrtle Reed Quotes - Page 2

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• It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.

  Myrtle Reed

  Vanity, People, Details

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

  Myrtle Reed

  Law, Punishment, May

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.53, tredition

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• All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

  Myrtle Reed

  Failure, Loss, Reality

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.

  Myrtle Reed

  Men, Likes, Feels

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.51, tredition

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• Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

  Myrtle Reed

  Mean, Destiny, Men

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

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  Years, Work Out, Problem

  Myrtle Reed (1919). “The Master's Violin”, p.214, Library of Alexandria

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• How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

  Myrtle Reed

  Age, Strange, Old Age

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.30, Library of Alexandria

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• No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

  Myrtle Reed

  Men, Sea, Forever

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

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  Death, People, Virtue

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.93, tredition

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• A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

  Myrtle Reed

  Book, Waiting, Hours

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.

  Myrtle Reed

  Heartbroken, Men, Dating

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• The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

  Myrtle Reed

  Pain, Joy, Soul

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• One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

  Myrtle Reed

  Guests, Dinner, Salad

  Myrtle Reed (1909). “Old Rose and Silver”

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• There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it.

  Myrtle Reed

  Way, Trouble, One Way

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• Pedestals are always lonely.

  Myrtle Reed

  Lonely, Pedestal

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• Marriage is the cold potato of love.

  Myrtle Reed

  Potatoes, Cold

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

  Myrtle Reed

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.158, tredition

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• At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

  Myrtle Reed

  Men, Twenties, Thirty

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.38, tredition

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• Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.

  Myrtle Reed

  Money, May, Your Best Friend

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• Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

  Myrtle Reed

  Sorry, Women, Feelings

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.32, tredition

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• Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

  Myrtle Reed

  Memorable, Thinking, Clothes

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.69, Library of Alexandria

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• Those who have been made great have first suffered.

  Myrtle Reed

  Suffering, Firsts, Made

  Myrtle Reed (2017). “The Master's Violin”, p.136, Litres

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• It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

  Myrtle Reed

  Views, Perspective, Looks

  Myrtle Reed (1902). “Lavender and Old Lace”

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• Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

  Myrtle Reed

  Men, Age, Doe

  Myrtle Reed (1904). “The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History”

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• Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

  Myrtle Reed

  Kindness, Fighting, Years

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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