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
Myrtle Reed quotes about
bird joy
A bird is joy incarnate.
money may your-best-friend
Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.
turns corners uncertainty
when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.
process
Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.
waiting
when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
potatoes cold
Marriage is the cold potato of love.
strain
marriage is a great strain upon love.
hate remember indifference
Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.
kindness fighting years
Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.
effort church violent
[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.
summer rocks discovery
The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam.
love-is air orchids
Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
lonely pedestal
Pedestals are always lonely.
lovers married disappointed-love
It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.