Carolyn Wells Quotes

"A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye."
- Carolyn Wells
(Related: Cynic, Eye, Man, Mind, World)

"Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive."
- Carolyn Wells
(Related: Advice)

"I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued."
- Carolyn Wells
(Related: Success, Facts, Theories)

"It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't."
- Carolyn Wells
(Related: Books, Interest)

"Of two evils choose the prettier."
- Carolyn Wells

"Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life."
- Carolyn Wells
(Related: Age, Life, Fate, Old, Silly, State, Years, Youth)

"A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time."
- Carolyn Wells
(Related: Time, Cleverness, Right, Wrong)