Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Often
According
Littles
Teeth
Little
Warm
Come
Jokes
Always
Cry
Chattering
Like
Married
Bathing
People
Marriage
Shore
Boys
Joke
More quotes by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
God rest ye, little children let nothing you afright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night Along the hills of Galilee the white blocks sleeping lay, When Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas day.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be and women do suffer therefrom, in all its infinite varieties: loss by death, by faithlessness or unworthiness, and by mistaken or unrequited affection.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Be loving, and you will never want for love be humble, and you will never want for guiding.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy mountains, Draughts of life to me.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port--heaven,-- Friend, what years could us divide?
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
With faces like dead lovers who died true.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
O blest one hour like this! to rise And see grief's shadows backward roll While bursts on unaccustomed eyes The glad Aurora of the soul.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Young Dandelion On a hedge-side Said young Dandelion Who'll be my bride? Said young Dandelion With a sweet air, I have my eye on Miss Daisy fair.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Silence sweeter is than speech.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik