Top 21 Woolson Quotes
#2. It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?
Constance Fenimore Woolson
#3. One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
#4. Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it?
Sugata Mitra
#5. Warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.
Constance Fenimore Woolson
#6. A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
#7. For years of faithfulness even as a child are not thrown away, but yield ... a strength at last in times of trial.
Constance Fenimore Woolson
#9. Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
#10. American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
#12. Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.
Constance Fenimore Woolson
#14. A daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into the father's grave the daughter, sometimes a gray-haired woman, lays away forever the little pet names and memories which to all the rest of the world are but foolishness.
Constance Fenimore Woolson
#15. They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.
Constance Fenimore Woolson
#16. Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
#17. My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.
John Dryden
#18. Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
Candis Cayne
#19. The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
#20. Today I will do something just for the fun of it. I will find something to do that's just for me and I won't worry about what I should be doing. I will learn how to make myself feel good and enjoy life to the fullest.
Melody Beattie
#21. Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?
Constance Fenimore Woolson
