One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world. Ellen Glasgow More Quotes by Ellen Glasgow More Quotes From Ellen Glasgow All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. Ellen Glasgow organizationchangepositive The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it. Ellen Glasgow enjoywarpeople What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. Ellen Glasgow motivationalhappinessinspirational The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. Ellen Glasgow childhoodgivingchildren It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had. Ellen Glasgow overestimatehuman-naturehumans Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure. Ellen Glasgow minddreamadventure I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace. Ellen Glasgow killinglittleswar The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions. Ellen Glasgow stresshumorchange Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated. Ellen Glasgow stalerepetition After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour Ellen Glasgow goldenbarsrain Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. Ellen Glasgow mediocritywinningnumbers Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs? Ellen Glasgow dogfriendshipmen No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality. Ellen Glasgow flyingrealityideas Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do. Ellen Glasgow enigmaalmightywomen Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. Ellen Glasgow motivationalinspirationallife It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. Ellen Glasgow forget-the-pastlovelybirthday A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. Ellen Glasgow independencecreditsuccess Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'. Ellen Glasgow neighborsacrificepeople there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for. Ellen Glasgow surprisehappensmay The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it. Ellen Glasgow mulesgovernmentwant
