Alice Duer Miller
Alice Duer Miller
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 July 1874
CountryUnited States of America
burst good help paint painting pictures truth
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
art sacrifice love-is
And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.
army feelings good-man
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.
funny-friendship mean men
When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
love fists
Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
people trying partnership
Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
mother children wall
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world
adaptability strongest know-how
the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.
people parent dull
No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.
education children mean
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.
baseball men emotional
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .
country men thinking
They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now and then That other countries breed other men.
hate people
People love to talk but hate to listen.
unexpected crisis charlotte
It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.