Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes

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)
...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel. View quote
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. View quote
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself. View quote
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell. View quote
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. View quote
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. View quote
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary. View quote
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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! View quote
Dorothy Canfield Fisher