California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices. Gertrude Atherton More Quotes by Gertrude Atherton More Quotes From Gertrude Atherton Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor? Gertrude Atherton richpoormercy A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions. Gertrude Atherton bagssuperstitionslittles if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters? Gertrude Atherton artisttogetherworld when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings. Gertrude Atherton intelligentprayerforests The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time. Gertrude Atherton blowweathertwo Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women. Gertrude Atherton amusingshootingmen there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly. Gertrude Atherton saying-nothingfraudart A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains. Gertrude Atherton brainlongpeople If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing. Gertrude Atherton this-worldifsworld A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth? Gertrude Atherton why-notagemen Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do. Gertrude Atherton branchesrootspeople
