Julia McNair Wright famous quotes

the less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There are those 'whom not to know argues one's self unknown,' so if you have no reverence in a world where there is so much that is noble and venerable, then there will be something terrible lacking in your own character.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Appreciation #Character #Self

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Years #Good Man #Moments

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Past #Echoes #Mind

disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Order #Disorder #Workers

Home is the place where true politeness tells.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Home #Politeness

true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Kindness #Real #Courtesy

simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Beautiful #Light #Simplicity

as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Sleep #Brain #Needs

Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Wine #Sunshine #Sun

If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Ideas #People #Effort

I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end of the day to borrow from ...
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Time #Morning #Night

our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Doe #Wealth #Hours

... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Real #Order #Real Beauty

For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Evil #Moral #Financial

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Noble #Without You

little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Life Changing #Twenties #Dollar Bills

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Honesty #Ignorance #Doe

Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Appreciation #Ideas #Generosity

I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Beauty #Ideas #Snow

it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Easier #Ends #Beginnings And Endings

The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry ...
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Ornaments #Bars #Noses

Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Book #Forever #Habit

Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Stress #Ducks #People

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Debt #Spirit #Break

We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Spring #Thinking #Stronger

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Perfection #Effort #Habit

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Family #Happiness #Home

Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Family #Home #Evil

Half a loaf is better than no bread.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Gratitude #Half #Bread

fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Home #Order #Half

in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Home #Order #Anchors

What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true of the community, and of the state.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Community #Individual #States