Quote

Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

Myrtle Reed

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Myrtle Reed
Age: 36 †
Born: 1874
Born: September 27
Died: 1911
Died: August 17
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Olive Green
Myrtle Reed MacCollough
Wasn
Read
Ever
Love
Idiocy
Letter
Letters
Except
Evidence

More quotes by Myrtle Reed

Image
It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.
Myrtle Reed
Image
The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.
Myrtle Reed
Image
Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
Myrtle Reed
Image
If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.
Myrtle Reed
Image
When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.
Myrtle Reed
Image
But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.
Myrtle Reed
Image
when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
Myrtle Reed
Image
Pedestals are always lonely.
Myrtle Reed
Image
If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Myrtle Reed
Image
Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.
Myrtle Reed
Image
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.
Myrtle Reed
Image
It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
Myrtle Reed
Image
it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
Myrtle Reed
Image
I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.
Myrtle Reed
Image
Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.
Myrtle Reed
Image
I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit.
Myrtle Reed
Image
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.
Myrtle Reed
Image
Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
Myrtle Reed
Image
When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.
Myrtle Reed
Image
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.
Myrtle Reed