Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.
The wages of sin is alimony.
We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.
Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.
Where there's a will there's a detective story.
A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
A profit is not without honor save in Boston.
Every dogma must have its day.
Actions lie louder than words.
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Of two evils choose the prettier.
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true, That nothing can shake or slay; Each spring I firmly believe anew All the seed catalogues say!
To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.
I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.
musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.
'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!
I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.
Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.
Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!
A fool and his money are soon married.
What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.
how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.
Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.
Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
Carolyn Wells was an American writer and poet.
