Mary Wilson Little Quotes


"It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes."
- Mary Wilson Little
"In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping."
- Mary Wilson Little
(Related: Ireland, Sleep, Waking)

"If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform."
- Mary Wilson Little
(Related: Angels, Man, Reform)

"He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty."
- Mary Wilson Little
(Related: Thought, Day, May, Study)

"The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you."
- Mary Wilson Little
(Related: Success, People)

"Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying."
- Mary Wilson Little
(Related: Lying, Manners, Politeness)

"The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time."
- Mary Wilson Little
(Related: Time, Lie)

"Politeness is half good manners and half good lying."
- Mary Wilson Little
(Related: Lying, Manners, Politeness)

"A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick."
- Mary Wilson Little
(Related: People, First, Youth)