43 Quotes by Fanny Fern

She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.

Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.

Would a harsh word ever fall from lips which now breathed only love? Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death knell?

I wish one half the world were not fools, and the other half idiots.

I've as good a right to preserve the healthy body God gave me, as if I were not a woman.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

Marriage is the hardest way to get a living.

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.