Carolyn Wells
Carolyn Wells
Carolyn Wellswas an American author and poet. Born in Rahway, New Jersey, she was the daughter of William E. and Anna Wells. She died at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City in 1942...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth18 June 1862
CountryUnited States of America
Carolyn Wells quotes about
boston honor profit
A profit is not without honor save in Boston.
dogma
Every dogma must have its day.
book library interest
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
common-sense care dignity
Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
money italian taxation
A fool and his money are soon married.
book writing thinking
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk about we never can recall And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
fun halloween believe
You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.
mother guilty-conscience invention
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
spring believe sublime
I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true, That nothing can shake or slay; Each spring I firmly believe anew All the seed catalogues say!
silly fate simple
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
eye men mind
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
way action
The way to do some things is to do them.
two fire library
To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.
evil criticism necessary-evil
A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.