72 Quotes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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.

Not a thing had happened the way she had planned, no, not a single thing! But it seemed to her she had never been so happy in her life.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.

If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it – why – there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.

I declare! Sometimes it seems to me that every time a new piece of machinery comes into the door some of our wits fly out the window!

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

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

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

The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school. She had always thought she was there to pass from one grade to another, and she was ever so startled to get a glimpse of the fact that she was there to learn how to read and write and cipher and generally use her mind, so she could take care of herself when she came to be grown up.