72 Quotes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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.

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

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

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.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

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?

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

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

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.