Ethel Mumford Quotes

• Busy people are never busybodies.

  Ethel Mumford

  Inspirational, People, Busy

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• Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

  Ethel Mumford

  Drinking, Heart, Absinthe

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• The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

  Ethel Mumford

  Doctors, Patient, Motto

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• The doors of Opportunity are marked 'Push' and 'Pull'.

  Ethel Mumford

  Opportunity, Doors

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• The wages of Gin is Debt.

  Ethel Mumford

  Drinking, Wages, Debt

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• The greatest possession is Self-possession.

  Ethel Mumford

  Confidence, Self, Possession

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• The danger lies not in the big ears of little pitchers, but in the large mouths.

  Ethel Mumford

  Lying, Ears, Mouths

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• The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

  Ethel Mumford

  Jobs, Pride, Men

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• The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.

  Ethel Mumford

  Cynicism, Worst, Worst Things

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• Imagination makes cowards of us all.

  Ethel Mumford

  Imagination, Coward

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• Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

  Ethel Mumford

  Widows, Motto, Orphan

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• Where there is a will there's a law suit.

  Ethel Mumford

  Law, Suits, Wit

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• Contentment: The smother of invention.

  Ethel Mumford

  Design, Contentment, Invention

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• An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

  Ethel Mumford

  Pounds, Conventions, Explanation

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• Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.

  Ethel Mumford

  Prodigies, Born, Infant

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• Economy is the thief of time.

  Ethel Mumford

  One Day, Thieves, Economy

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• Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

  Ethel Mumford

  Memorable, Knowledge, Persons

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• Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet.

  Ethel Mumford

  Sonnet

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