men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
... Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love;… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my… — Margaret Deland Copy Share
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the… — Margaret Deland Copy Share
War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change… — Margaret Deland Copy Share
there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive… — Margaret Deland Copy Share
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. — Margaret Deland Copy Share
Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly… — Margaret Deland Copy Share
Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its… — Margaret Deland Copy Share
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful. — Margaret Deland Copy Share
... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording. — Margaret Deland Copy Share
a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize… — Margaret Deland Copy Share
Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest. — Margaret Deland Copy Share
