72 Quotes by Carolyn Wells

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Of two evils choose the prettier.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

We should live and learn; but by the time we’ve learned, it’s too late to live.

Where there’s a will there’s a detective story.

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.

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