Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes
"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young."
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
(Related: Love, Age, May, Old)
"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature ."
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
(Related: Nature, Human nature)
"Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell."
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
(Related: People, Doctors, Nurses)
"She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!"
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
(Related: Yesterday)
"If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days."
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
(Related: Life, Question, Reflection, Vacation, Want)
"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary."
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
(Related: Mother)
"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young."
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
(Related: Age, Change, Being, Middle age)