Carolyn Wells Quotes
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~ Carolyn Wells Quote
To make a library it takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
'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!
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
We are not the barbecue police. We are not in charge of security.
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
Every dogma must have its day
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
Actions lie louder than words.
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
It's sort of grandfathered in,
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
Of two evils, choose the prettier.
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
~ Carolyn Wells Quote
