Mary Louisa Molesworth famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

grumbling, as things are at present arranged in this world, does not always, nor I might say often, do good ...
-- Mary Louisa Molesworth

#Doe #Complaining #World
Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed.
-- Mary Louisa Molesworth

#Expectations #Way #Being Disappointed
kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.
-- Mary Louisa Molesworth

#Kindness #Wings #Roots
Do any of us understand ourselves? all the different selves that each of us is?
-- Mary Louisa Molesworth

#Self #Different
Troubles never come singly.
-- Mary Louisa Molesworth

#Trouble

Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

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