Quotes by Carolyn Wells

Carolyn Wells

… ideals, standards, aspirations,–those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,–often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.

Color

Men

Uplifting

… the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

Book

Mind

Reading

‘Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!

Blessed

Christmas

Giving

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind’s eye.

Eye

Men

Mind

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Guilt

Invention

Mother

A living gale is better than a dead calm.

Calm

Gale

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Advice

Blessed

Giving

Circumstances alter faces.

Circumstances

Faces

Every dogma must have its day.

Dogma

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

Affection

Effort

Facts

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Age

Apology

Believe

Blessed

Book

Calm

Christmas

Circumstances

Color

Conventions

Devil

Dogma

Effort

Eye

Faces

Facts

Fashion

Fate

Fire

Friendship

Fun

Gale

Giving

Grows

Guilt

Halloween

Happy

Hate

Heart

Home

Humor

Humour

Infidelity

Invention

Knowledge

Live And Learn

May

Men

Mind

Mother

Multitudes

Musician

Nonsense

Numbers

Patriotism

Pride

Reading

Silly

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Quotes by Carolyn Wells

Carolyn Wells

… the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

‘Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind’s eye.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

A living gale is better than a dead calm.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Circumstances alter faces.

Every dogma must have its day.

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

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