112 Quotes by Margaret Deland

It is better to be lonely than to wish to be alone.

A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.

nothing may be more selfish than remorse ...