72 Quotes by Carolyn Wells

What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?

Actions lie louder than words.

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

And Your modest ambition is to be a good housekeeper, isn't it?""Well, yes, Papa; but not only that. I was thinking about it afterward by myself, and I think housekeeping is a the practical part of it - and that's a good big part too - but What I really want to be is a lovely, good, womanly woman, like Aunt Alice, you know.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.