I think this is the greatest and best country in all the world, with its great sunlit spaces and its long long roads, and best of all the roads that are not made yet, and the stories that no one has told because they are too busy living them. Nellie L. McClung More Quotes by Nellie L. McClung More Quotes From Nellie L. McClung War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men. Nellie L. McClung strong teaching war Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations. Nellie L. McClung stupidity fire children it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something. Nellie L. McClung speakers differences War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war! Nellie L. McClung men war children I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said. Nellie L. McClung bye doors people Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing. Nellie L. McClung cake justice sweet Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet. Nellie L. McClung wisdom humanity feet A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in. Nellie L. McClung doe heart tree The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk. Nellie L. McClung poverty horse may Every season of life has its compensations. Nellie L. McClung seasons-of-life compensation life Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live? Nellie L. McClung heart hands thinking the grief that can be turned into words soon heals. Nellie L. McClung heal grief The good is the greatest rival of the best. Nellie L. McClung rivals goodness It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players. Nellie L. McClung perspective player wings Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper. Nellie L. McClung rallying-cry drinking doors War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be. Nellie L. McClung men war people Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it. Nellie L. McClung credit lines needs The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else. Nellie L. McClung compassion disappointment average The middle years of life come on like thunder. Nellie L. McClung thunder age years thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution. Nellie L. McClung revolution volume expression
