Martha Finley famous quotes

03-30-2025

I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.
-- Martha Finley

#Children #Parent #Littles
Good husbands make good wives.
-- Martha Finley

#Husband #Wife #Good Husband
It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.
-- Martha Finley

#Names #Brain #Weapons
Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness ...
-- Martha Finley

#Father #Men #Religion
Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject connected with her duty to God and her neighbor; was very truthful both in word and deed, very strict in her observance of the Sabbath-though the rest of the family were by no means particular in that respect-very diligent in her studies; respectful to superiors, and kind to inferiors and equals; and she was gentle, sweet-tempered, patient, and forgiving to a remarkable degree.
-- Martha Finley

#Sweet #Children #Mean
Ah, what a sweetner of toil is loveâ€”love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.
-- Martha Finley

#Parent #Employment #Toil
Holy and pure are the drops that fall, When the young bride goes from her father's hall; She goes unto love yet untried and new- She parts from love which hath still been true.
-- Martha Finley

#Father #Fall #Holy

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.
I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.
You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
I have little shame, no dignity â€“ all in the name of a better cause.
I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,
Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden Until Della walked into my life I didnâ€™t understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But Iâ€™d seen it once -Woods
A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

Martha Finley famous quotes

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