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
dream thinking people
There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.
men twenties thirty
At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.
dream fashion heart
Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.
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.
mean destiny men
Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.
moving discomfort stills
I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.
potatoes cold
Marriage is the cold potato of love.
children believe names
When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.
strain
marriage is a great strain upon love.
thinking way yoke
Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.
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.
punishment law may
Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
years bitterness sometimes
... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
song world
... the song of the world is all of love.