Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years. Julia McNair Wright More Quotes by Julia McNair Wright More Quotes From Julia McNair Wright ... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order. Julia McNair Wright real-beauty real order Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large. Julia McNair Wright family evil home the less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There are those 'whom not to know argues one's self unknown,' so if you have no reverence in a world where there is so much that is noble and venerable, then there will be something terrible lacking in your own character. Julia McNair Wright self appreciation character The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past. Julia McNair Wright echoes mind past disorder is the slowest worker in the universe. Julia McNair Wright workers disorder order Home is the place where true politeness tells. Julia McNair Wright politeness home true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed. Julia McNair Wright courtesy real kindness simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light. Julia McNair Wright simplicity light beautiful as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping. Julia McNair Wright brain sleep needs Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life. Julia McNair Wright sunshine wine sun If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation. Julia McNair Wright effort people ideas I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end of the day to borrow from. Julia McNair Wright time morning night our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession. Julia McNair Wright wealth hours doe little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime. Julia McNair Wright small-changes life-changing littles human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance. Julia McNair Wright honesty ignorance doe in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor. Julia McNair Wright anchors home order I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense. Julia McNair Wright snow beauty ideas it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning. Julia McNair Wright beginnings-and-endings easier ends The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry. Julia McNair Wright ornaments lips next What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true of the community, and of the state. Julia McNair Wright individual community states
