I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while. Margaret Deland More Quotes by Margaret Deland More Quotes From Margaret Deland When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty. Margaret Deland emsdutytwo Real divorce takes place without a decree. Margaret Deland decreedivorcereal the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light. Margaret Deland lightjewelsblue the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it! Margaret Deland clergyministrymatrimony There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls. Margaret Deland arrogancedoubtpeople To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful. Margaret Deland cobwebssuccessfulself I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits. Margaret Deland crittershabittwo Convictions do not imply reasons. Margaret Deland convictionreason Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death. Margaret Deland griefpayworld Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness. Margaret Deland reconcilehabitdoe the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental. Margaret Deland habitbreakyears There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it. Margaret Deland hatemotherchildren What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own. Margaret Deland hypocrisymotherthinking moral vanity is the snare of good people. Margaret Deland vanitymoralitypeople we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility. Margaret Deland anxietyresponsibilityloss there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence! Margaret Deland silencegracelying Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament Margaret Deland wallstarsmen When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter. Margaret Deland frailbombshellsletters Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles. Margaret Deland cakecookingpeople a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes! Margaret Deland unhappinesscuttingtaste
