Zoe Akins Professions : Playwright Born : October 30, 1886 Died : October 29, 1958 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Zoe Akins It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit. Zoe Akins fruit flower tree No one can ever help loving anyone. Zoe Akins helping Work alone qualifies us for life. Zoe Akins Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness. Zoe Akins greatness It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love. Zoe Akins brutal wife easy Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully. Zoe Akins cost-of-living forgiveness cost The success-haters. That's what I call them -- the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail. Zoe Akins watches people world Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing. Zoe Akins good-things life-is young Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . . Zoe Akins light leadership bird To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible! Zoe Akins injustice blame impossible Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married. Zoe Akins marriage eye art Similar Authors Alan Ayckbourn playwright Bonnie Greer playwright Annie Baker playwright August Wilson playwright August Strindberg playwright Athol Fugard playwright All Authors
