Quote

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

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
Longed
Unselfish
Serpent
Sea
White
Three
Things
Men
Rhinoceros

More quotes by Myrtle Reed

Image
One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.
Myrtle Reed
Image
when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.
Myrtle Reed
Image
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.
Myrtle Reed
Image
Love and hate always remember it is only indifference that forgets.
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 the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.
Myrtle Reed
Image
As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.
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
When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.
Myrtle Reed
Image
Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
Myrtle Reed
Image
... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
Myrtle Reed
Image
Gossip is the social mosquito.
Myrtle Reed
Image
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.
Myrtle Reed
Image
Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
Myrtle Reed
Image
When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.
Myrtle Reed
Image
Revolution is obstructed evolution.
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
It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
Myrtle Reed
Image
When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
Myrtle Reed
Image
when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
Myrtle Reed