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
dream thinking people
There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.
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.
sadness sovereign remedy
Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
waiting
when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
potatoes cold
Marriage is the cold potato of love.
letters love-letter evidence
Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?
strain
marriage is a great strain upon love.
vanity selfishness lovable
Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
change sweet essence
Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.
hate remember indifference
Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.
earth firsts kind
If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.
guests dinner salad
One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.
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.