Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes - Page 2

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• The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Ocean, Tea, Trying

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mark J. Madigan (1993). “Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher”, p.94, University of Missouri Press

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• You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Luck, Wish, Body

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1933). “Bonfire”

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• it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sex, Men, Mind

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sight, Long, People

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Character, Nurse, Essentials

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• What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Long, Use, Enough

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• Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Family, Running, Law

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1956). “A harvest of stories, from a half century of writing”

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• gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Gossip, Fiction

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• The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1912). “A Montessori Mother”

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• I've always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn't narrow-minded; and I think it likely that people who aren't so cocksure what they want to do with themselves, hesitate because they have a great deal more to deal with. A nature rich in fine and complex possibilities takes more time to dispose of itself, but when it does, the world's beauty is the gainer.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Thinking, People, Doe

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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• There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sex, Husband, Wife

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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• You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Thinking, Glasses, Light

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1933). “Bonfire”

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• A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Mom, Individual, Persons

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• Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own happiness. ... Character itself lies deep and secret below the surface, unknown and unknowable by others. It is the mysterious core of life, which every man or woman has to cope with alone, to live with, to conquer and put in order, or to be defeated by.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Lying, Character, Men

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• Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Music, Writing, Wish

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• Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sacrifice, Counterfeit Money, Counterfeit

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1933). “Bonfire”

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• Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Father, Promise, Pay

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• the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Discipline, Long, Clubs

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1912). “A Montessori Mother”

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• Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Thinking, People, Gossip

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1971). “Four-square”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Oh, yes, of course I like music, too. Very much. It's so pleasant of an evening, especially when made by your friends at home. I often say I like it better than cards. Though I must say I do like a good game of bridge.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Music, Home, Games

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• don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Believe, Men, World

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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• I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Men, Eggs, Opinion

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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