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
forgiveness house understanding
There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
memories good-memories forget
A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
flower magic
each separate flower has a magic all its own.
failure loss reality
All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.
dog world fairs
the world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!
people world mouths
There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.
heartbroken men dating
Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.
believe fire heaven
If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.
magic ifs
As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.
people house guests
it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
process
Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.
dust imagination soul
The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.
men sea forever
No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.
omission sin productive
Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.