Carolyn Wells
Carolyn Wells
Carolyn Wellswas an American author and poet. Born in Rahway, New Jersey, she was the daughter of William E. and Anna Wells. She died at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City in 1942...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth18 June 1862
CountryUnited States of America
book writing thinking
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk about we never can recall And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
mother guilty-conscience invention
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
silly fate simple
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
knowledge too-late live-and-learn
We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.
way action
The way to do some things is to do them.
faces circumstances
Circumstances alter faces.
past people giving
In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
mother society conventions
Society's the mother of convention.
imagination contentment results
Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.
detectives stories detective-stories
Where there's a will there's a detective story.
christian grace biographies
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.
age
I'm just the same age I've always been.
successful advice credit
how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.
advice devil may
Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.