Myrtle Reed
Myrtle Reed
Myrtle Reedwas an American author, poet, journalist, and philanthropist. She wrote a number of bestsellers and even published a series of cookbooks under the pseudonym Olive Green...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 September 1874
CountryUnited States of America
people house guests
it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
process
Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.
dust imagination soul
The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.
men sea forever
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.
omission sin productive
Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
suffering firsts made
Those who have been made great have first suffered.
matter circumstances temperament
content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance ...
heart matter ache
... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.
sorry women feelings
Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
work blindness inseparable
I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.
work mean soul
The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.
doe harm wrongdoing
Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.
years work-out problem
When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.
men sea white
Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.