Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgowwas an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary south...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 April 1873
CityRichmond, VA
CountryUnited States of America
cutting men blood
you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.
men youth human-nature
Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
men mind world
He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.
men practice religion
Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
believe responsibility men
I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.
men judging appearance
After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
men vanity soil
Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.
children fun men
There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
men imagination senses
women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
success men satisfaction
There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.
past men hard
What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.
men politics saws
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em ...
thinking men persuasion
it is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do ...
dog men doe
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?