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
men age may
Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.
men likes feels
A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.
heart men thinking
After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.
heartbroken men dating
Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.
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.
men sea white
Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
men twenties thirty
At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.
mean destiny men
Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.
taken men effort
Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.
bird joy
A bird is joy incarnate.
sorrow world way
There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.
inspirational feet people
If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
letters want chance
A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.
differences interesting people
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.