125 Quotes by Myrtle Reed

If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.

As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.

No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

Those who have been made great have first suffered.

content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance ...