Dorothy Gilman Famous Quotes



"If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time."


Dorothy Gilman Quotations






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"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
Roosevelt Eleanor

"Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment."
Andre Maurois

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.
Cernuda y Bidon Luis Cernuda

The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.
Louis Johannot

"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be."
Robert Fulghum

The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis

"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers

"Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one."
Jim Hightower

"There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that ... I never shoot blanks."
Richard Milhous Nixon