28 Quotes by Eleanor H. Porter

Of course things you don’t know about are always nicer’n things you do, same as the pertater on ’tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

It’s funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn’t it?

You see, when you’re hunting for the glad things, you sort of forget the other kind – like.

In fact, I know that a ‘nice live little boy’ would be far better than – my skeleton in the closet; only – we aren’t always willing to make the exchange. We are apt to still cling to – our skeletons, Pollyanna.

Oh, of course I’d be BREATHING all the time I was doing those things, Aunt Polly, but I wouldn’t be living. You breathe all the time you’re asleep, but you aren’t living. I mean living – doing the things.

One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn’t like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

I love different folks.

But you only have to live one minute at a time, Ruth, and any one can endure anything for one minute at a time!

Why, it would be such fun,′ he chuckled, ’to just forget all about the hours when the sun didn’t shine, and remember only the nice, pleasant ones.