Ethel Mumford famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Contentment: The smother of invention.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Design #Contentment #Invention
Where there is a will there's a law suit.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Law #Suits #Wit
Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Widows #Motto #Orphan
The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Jobs #Pride #Men
Imagination makes cowards of us all.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Imagination #Coward
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Drinking #Heart #Absinthe
The wages of Gin is Debt.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Drinking #Wages #Debt
The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Doctors #Patient #Motto
The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Cynicism #Worst
An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Pounds #Conventions #Explanation
The greatest possession is Self-possession.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Confidence #Self #Possession
The danger lies not in the big ears of little pitchers, but in the large mouths.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Lying #Ears #Mouths
Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Prodigies #Born #Infant
Economy is the thief of time.
-- Ethel Mumford

#One Day #Thieves #Economy
The doors of Opportunity are marked 'Push' and 'Pull'.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Opportunity #Doors
Busy people are never busybodies.
-- Ethel Mumford

#People #Busy #Busybodies
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Memorable #Knowledge #Persons
Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Sonnet

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