Charlotte Perkins Gilman Famous Quotes



The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.


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"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."
Latin Proverb

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
Aldous Huxley

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

"Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status."
Lao Tzu

"There it was, hidden in alphabetical order."
Rita Holt

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.
Marcus Terentius Varro

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.
T S Eliot

"My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants."
J Brotherton

"When the satisfaction or security of another person becomes as important to one as one's own, then a state of love exists."
Harry Stack Sullivan

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
David McCullough