Dorothy Dix Quotations

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

So many persons think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, that the remedy is worse than the disease

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.

Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.

There is no weapon in the feminine armory to which men are so vulnerable as they are to a smile.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.

Happiness is largely a matter of self-hypnotism. You can think yourself happy or you can think yourself miserable.

(A girl's) chief ambition then, as now, was to get married and have a home and children.

The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads