MYRTLE REED

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Have you ever seen a man carry a burden when there were a woman's shoulders near enough to shift the burden to?

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.

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.

Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.

After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

Gossip is the social mosquito.

when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.

The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.

Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

marriage is a great strain upon love.

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.

There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

Those who have been made great have first suffered.

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.

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

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.