A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
Death is the king of this world 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
Breed is stronger than pasture.
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
Consequences are unpitying.
I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
It will never rain roses when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
