Margaret Ayer Barnes famous quotes

03-25-2025

Character comes before scholarship.
-- Margaret Ayer Barnes

#Character #Scholarship
It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble.
-- Margaret Ayer Barnes

#Sex #Two #World
All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.
-- Margaret Ayer Barnes

#War #Thinking #People
The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal.
-- Margaret Ayer Barnes

#Sleep #Fighting #Men
Resisted temptations become lost opportunities ...
-- Margaret Ayer Barnes

#Opportunity #Temptation #Lost
There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.
-- Margaret Ayer Barnes

#Fun #Talking #World
All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington ...
-- Margaret Ayer Barnes

#Government #Order #States
Character is the best security.
-- Margaret Ayer Barnes

#Character #Security
The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.
-- Margaret Ayer Barnes

#Reading #Mean #Life Is
I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing ...
-- Margaret Ayer Barnes

#Believe #Differences #Important
Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.
-- Margaret Ayer Barnes

#Essence #Feelings #Spontaneity
Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?
-- Margaret Ayer Barnes

#Mean #Talking #People
Riches make cowards of us ...
-- Margaret Ayer Barnes

#Coward #Riches

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