229 Quotes by Laura Ingalls Wilder

It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.

The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.

Vices are simply overworked virtues ...

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.