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
Carolyn Wells quotes about
past people giving
In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
friendship book giving
There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.
christmas blessed giving
'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!
next-week two giving
Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!
blessed giving advice
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
age
I'm just the same age I've always been.
body magazines literature
What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.
gale calm
A living gale is better than a dead calm.
infidelity wages sin
The wages of sin is alimony.
humor musician humour
musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
flirting envy and-love
Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.
faces circumstances
Circumstances alter faces.
mother society conventions
Society's the mother of convention.
imagination contentment results
Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.